Bootstrapping $N_f=4$ conformal QED$_3$
Abstract
We present the results of a conformal bootstrap study of the presumed unitary IR fixed point of quantum electrodynamics in three dimensions (QED) coupled to two-component Dirac fermions. Specifically, we study the four-point correlators of the adjoint fermion bilinear and the monopole of lowest topological charge . Most notably, the scaling dimensions of the fermion bilinear and the monopole are found to be constrained into a closed island with a combination of spectrum assumptions inspired by the perturbative results as well as a novel interval positivity constraint on the next-lowest-charge monopole . Bounds in this island on the and topological conserved current central charges , , as well as on the stress tensor central charge , are comfortably consistent with the perturbative results. Together with the scaling dimensions, this suggests that a part of estimates from the expansion -- even at -- provide a self-consistent solution to the bootstrap crossing relations, despite some of our assumptions not being strictly justified.
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@article{arxiv.2112.02106,
title = {Bootstrapping $N_f=4$ conformal QED$_3$},
author = {Soner Albayrak and Rajeev S. Erramilli and Zhijin Li and David Poland and Yuan Xin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.02106},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
v1: 66 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables; v2: revtex-2 version, typos corrected