Bootstrapping boundary-localized interactions II: Minimal models at the boundary
High Energy Physics - Theory
2022-03-24 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We provide evidence for the existence of non-trivial unitary conformal boundary conditions for a three-dimensional free scalar field, which can be obtained via a coupling to the m'th unitary diagonal minimal model. For large m we can demonstrate the existence of the fixed point perturbatively, and for smaller values we use the numerical conformal bootstrap to obtain a sharp kink that smoothly matches onto the perturbative predictions. The wider numerical analysis also yields universal bounds for the spectrum of any other boundary condition for the free scalar field. A second kink in these bounds hints at a second class of non-standard boundary conditions, as yet unidentified.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2111.04747,
title = {Bootstrapping boundary-localized interactions II: Minimal models at the boundary},
author = {Connor Behan and Lorenzo Di Pietro and Edoardo Lauria and Balt C. van Rees},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04747},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
45 pages, 10 figures; v2: published version