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 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 OPE, and also on the central charge . We observe features in our bounds that coincide with scaling dimensions in the Gross-Neveu models at large . We also speculate that other features could coincide with a fermionic CFT containing no relevant scalar operators.
Cite
@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