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The solvability of the three-dimensional O(N) scalar field theory in the large N limit makes it an ideal toy model exhibiting “walking” behavior, expected in some SU(N) gauge theories with a large number of fermion flavors. We study the model using lattice regularization and show that when the ratio of the particle mass to an effective 4-point coupling (with dimension mass) is small, the beta function associated to the running 4-point coupling is “walking”. We also study lattice artifacts and finite size effects, and find that while the former can be sizable at realistic correlation length, the latter are under control already at lattice sizes a few (∼3) correlation lengths. We show the robustness of the walking phenomenon by showing that it can also be observed by studying physical observables such as the scattering phase shifts and the mass gap in finite volume.
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Aoki, S., Balog, J. & Weisz, P. Walking in the 3-dimensional large N scalar model. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 167 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2014)167
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