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Bootstrapping the O(N) Archipelago

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-11-30 v2 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We study 3d CFTs with an O(N)O(N) global symmetry using the conformal bootstrap for a system of mixed correlators. Specifically, we consider all nonvanishing scalar four-point functions containing the lowest dimension O(N)O(N) vector ϕi\phi_i and the lowest dimension O(N)O(N) singlet ss, assumed to be the only relevant operators in their symmetry representations. The constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for these four-point functions force the scaling dimensions (Δϕ,Δs)(\Delta_\phi, \Delta_s) to lie inside small islands. We also make rigorous determinations of current two-point functions in the O(2)O(2) and O(3)O(3) models, with applications to transport in condensed matter systems.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.07997,
  title  = {Bootstrapping the O(N) Archipelago},
  author = {Filip Kos and David Poland and David Simmons-Duffin and Alessandro Vichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07997},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

32 pages, 13 figures; updated Fig.2, added references and minor corrections in Sec.3.3

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