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Free and Interacting Fermionic Conformal Field Theories on the Fuzzy Sphere

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-02-27 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The fuzzy-sphere regularisation is a powerful tool to study conformal field theories (CFT) in three spacetime dimensions. In this paper, we extend its scope to CFTs with local fermionic operators. We realise the free-Majorana-fermion CFT on a set-up with one flavour of bosons and one flavour of fermions on the lowest Landau level with a 1/21/2 angular momentum mismatch and allow conversion between two bosons and two fermions, and use a relative chemical potential as the tuning parameter. On the phase diagram, we observe two continuous transitions described respectively by a free Majorana fermion and a gauged Ising CFT. We numerically confirm the emergent conformal symmetry through the operator spectrum and the two-point correlation function of the local Majorana fermion. We further establish a correspondence between the fuzzy-sphere models and the field-theory Lagrangians, and extend it to an interacting fermionic CFT -- the super-Ising theory with emergent super-conformal symmetry.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2509.08038,
  title  = {Free and Interacting Fermionic Conformal Field Theories on the Fuzzy Sphere},
  author = {Zheng Zhou and Davide Gaiotto and Yin-Chen He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08038},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

61 pages, 15 figures. Add Sections 7, 8 and Appendices D, E