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Evidence for 3d bosonization from monopole operators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-07-19 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We give evidence for 3d bosonization in Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) by computing monopole operator scaling dimensions in 2+1 dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED3) with Chern-Simons level kk and NN complex bosons in a large N,kN,k expansion. We first consider the k=0k=0 case, where we show that scaling dimensions previously computed to subleading order in 1/N1/N can be extrapolated to N=1N=1 and matched to O(2)O(2) Wilson-Fisher CFT scaling dimensions with around 5\% error, which is evidence for particle-vortex duality. We then generalize the subleading calculation to large N,kN,k and fixed k/Nk/N, extrapolate to N=k=1N=k=1, and consider monopole operators that are conjectured to be dual to non-degenerate scalar operators in a theory of a single Dirac fermion. We find matches typically with 1\% error or less, which is strong evidence of this so-called `seed' duality that implies a web of 3d bosonization dualities among CFTs.

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@article{arxiv.2210.12370,
  title  = {Evidence for 3d bosonization from monopole operators},
  author = {Shai M. Chester and Éric Dupuis and William Witczak-Krempa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.12370},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

4 pages plus appendices, no figures. v2 minor typos corrected, submitted for publication

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