Evidence for 3d bosonization from monopole operators
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 and complex bosons in a large expansion. We first consider the case, where we show that scaling dimensions previously computed to subleading order in can be extrapolated to and matched to Wilson-Fisher CFT scaling dimensions with around 5\% error, which is evidence for particle-vortex duality. We then generalize the subleading calculation to large and fixed , extrapolate to , 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.
Cite
@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