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Fermionic minimal models

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-06-29 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that there is a fermionic minimal model, i.e. a 1+1d conformal field theory which contains operators of half-integral spins in its spectrum, for each c=16/m(m+1)c=1-6/m(m+1), m3m\ge 3. This generalizes the Majorana fermion for c=1/2c=1/2, m=3m=3 and the smallest N=1\mathcal{N}{=}1 supersymmetric minimal model for c=7/10c=7/10, m=4m=4. We provide explicit Hamiltonians on Majorana chains realizing these fermionic minimal models.

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@article{arxiv.2002.12283,
  title  = {Fermionic minimal models},
  author = {Chang-Tse Hsieh and Yu Nakayama and Yuji Tachikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12283},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

5+4 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables; v2: explicit form of the interacting Majorana chain realizing the $m=5$ fermionic minimal model added, some discussions added, references added, published version up to formatting