EXCITATION SPECTRUM AT THE YANG–LEE EDGE SINGULARITY OF 2D ISING MODEL ON THE STRIP

At the Yang–Lee edge singularity, finite-size scaling behavior is used to measure the low-lying excitation spectrum of the Ising quantum spin chain for free boundary conditions. The measured spectrum is used to identify the conformal field theory that describes the Yang–Lee edge singularity of the 2D Ising model for free boundary conditions.