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Towards Bootstrapping QED$_3$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-08-24 v2

Abstract

We initiate the conformal bootstrap study of Quantum Electrodynamics in 2+12+1 space-time dimensions (QED3_{3}) with NN 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 NN extrapolation of the scaling dimensions of the singly-charged and doubly-charged monopole operators down to N=4N=4 and N=6N=6.

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@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

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