Towards Bootstrapping QED$_3$
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-08-24 v2
Abstract
We initiate the conformal bootstrap study of Quantum Electrodynamics in space-time dimensions (QED) with flavors of charged fermions by focusing on the 4-point function of four monopole operators with the lowest unit of topological charge. We obtain upper bounds on the scaling dimension of the doubly-charged monopole operator, with and without assuming other gaps in the operator spectrum. Intriguingly, we find a (gap-dependent) kink in these bounds that comes reasonably close to the large extrapolation of the scaling dimensions of the singly-charged and doubly-charged monopole operators down to and .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1601.03476,
title = {Towards Bootstrapping QED$_3$},
author = {Shai M. Chester and Silviu S. Pufu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.03476},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
29 pages plus an appendix, 5 figures, v2 minor improvements, refs added