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Bootstrapping 3D Fermions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-07-08 v2 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We study the conformal bootstrap for a 4-point function of fermions ψψψψ\langle\psi\psi\psi\psi\rangle in 3D. We first introduce an embedding formalism for 3D spinors and compute the conformal blocks appearing in fermion 4-point functions. Using these results, we find general bounds on the dimensions of operators appearing in the ψ×ψ\psi \times \psi OPE, and also on the central charge CTC_T. We observe features in our bounds that coincide with scaling dimensions in the Gross-Neveu models at large NN. We also speculate that other features could coincide with a fermionic CFT containing no relevant scalar operators.

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@article{arxiv.1508.00012,
  title  = {Bootstrapping 3D Fermions},
  author = {Luca Iliesiu and Filip Kos and David Poland and Silviu S. Pufu and David Simmons-Duffin and Ran Yacoby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00012},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

45 pages, 8 figures; V2: added references and small clarifications to match JHEP version

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