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Decoding a Three-Dimensional Conformal Manifold

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-04 v1 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the one-dimensional complex conformal manifold that controls the infrared dynamics of a three-dimensional N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetric theory of three chiral superfields with a cubic superpotential. Two special points on this conformal manifold are the well-known XYZ model and three decoupled copies of the critical Wess-Zumino model. The conformal manifold enjoys a discrete duality group isomorphic to S4S_4 and can be thought of as an orbifold of CP1\mathbf{CP}^1. We use the 4ε4-\varepsilon expansion and the numerical conformal bootstrap to calculate the spectrum of conformal dimensions of low-lying operators and their OPE coefficients, and find a very good quantitative agreement between the two approaches.

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@article{arxiv.1712.02698,
  title  = {Decoding a Three-Dimensional Conformal Manifold},
  author = {Marco Baggio and Nikolay Bobev and Shai M. Chester and Edoardo Lauria and Silviu S. Pufu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02698},
  year   = {2018}
}

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59 pages, 13 figures

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