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Conformal field theory, describing systems with scaling symmetry, plays a crucial role throughout physics. We describe a quantum algorithm to simulate the dynamics of conformal field theories, including the action of local conformal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Tobias J. Osborne , Alexander Stottmeister

In this paper we introduce congruence spaces, which are topological spaces that are canonically attached to monoid schemes and that reflect closed topological properties. This leads to satisfactory topological characterizations of closed…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Oliver Lorscheid , Samarpita Ray

We study the symmetry resolution of the entanglement entropy of an interval in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), by relating the bipartition to the geometry of an annulus with conformal boundary conditions. In the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Giuseppe Di Giulio , René Meyer , Christian Northe , Henri Scheppach , Suting Zhao

We study how the fusion 2-category symmetry of a fermionic (2+1)d QFT can be affected when one allows for stacking with TQFTs to be an equivalence relation for QFTs. Focusing on a simple kind of fermionic fusion 2-category described purely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Daniel Teixeira , Matthew Yu

We find two bases for the lattices of the SU(2)-TQFT-theory modules of the torus over given rings of integers. We use variant of the bases defined in [GMW]for the lattices of the SO(3)-TQFT-theory modules of the torus. Moreover, we discuss…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Khaled Qazaqzeh

We introduce a new numerical algorithm based on semidefinite programming to efficiently compute bounds on operator dimensions, central charges, and OPE coefficients in 4D conformal and N=1 superconformal field theories. Using our algorithm,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

The structure of the commutator algebra for conformal quantum mechanics is considered. Specifically, it is shown that the emergence of a dimensional scale by renormalization implies the existence of an anomaly or quantum-mechanical symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gino N. J. Ananos , Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos Gorrichategui , Ernesto Hernadez , Carlos R. Ordonez

We consider the $U_q[SU(2)]$ symmetric Heisenberg chain when $q=e^{i\pi/(m+1)}$ and $m$ is integer. We consider the cases $m=3$ and $m=5$ which correspond to the Ising and 3-state Potts models. We study the finite size scaling (FSS) of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Matteo Beccaria

Recently there was a substantial progress in understanding of supersymmetric theories (in particular, their BPS spectrum) in space-times of different dimensions due to the exact computation of superconformal indices and partition functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-10 Ilmar Gahramanov , Grigory Vartanov

Geometric quantum machine learning uses the symmetries inherent in data to design tailored machine learning tasks with reduced search space dimension. The field has been well-studied recently in an effort to avoid barren plateau issues…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Zachary P. Bradshaw , Ethan N. Evans , Matthew Cook , Margarite L. LaBorde

We investigate the non-BPS realm of 3d ${\cal N} = 4$ superconformal field theory by uniting the non-perturbative methods of the conformal bootstrap and supersymmetric localization, and utilizing special features of 3d ${\cal N} = 4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-08 Chi-Ming Chang , Martin Fluder , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , Yifan Wang

For a positive integer r, an r-spin topological quantum field theory is a 2-dimensional TQFT with tangential structure given by the r-fold cover of SO_2 . In particular, such a TQFT assigns a scalar invariant to every closed r-spin surface…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Nils Carqueville , Ehud Meir , Lorant Szegedy

For an embedded conformal hypersurface with boundary, we construct critical order local invariants and their canonically associated differential operators. These are obtained holographically in a construction that uses a singular Yamabe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Cesar Arias , A. Rod Gover , Andrew Waldron

We investigate the phase diagram of a quantum many-body system constructed via the strange correlator approach, based on the non-Abelian $SU(2)_4$ fusion category, to probe topological phase transitions. Using tensor network methods, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Ce Shen

For a $C^{*}$-category with a strict $G$-action we construct examples of equivariant coarse homology theories. To this end we first introduce versions of Roe categories of objects in $C^{*}$-categories which are controlled over bornological…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Ulrich Bunke , Alexander Engel

We consider the conformal properties of geometries described by higher-rank line elements. A crucial role is played by the conformal Killing equation (CKE). We introduce the concept of null-flat spaces in which the line element can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Victor Tapia

Quantum toroidal algebras are obtained from quantum affine algebras by a further affinization, and, like the latter, can be used to construct integrable systems. These algebras also describe the symmetries of instanton partition functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Jean-Emile Bourgine , Saebyeok Jeong

We consider an involutive automorphism of the conformal algebra and the resulting symmetric space. We display a new action of the conformal group which gives rise to this space. The space has an intrinsic symplectic structure, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andre Wehner

The transitions between neighbouring plateaux in the quantum Hall system are observed to follow anti-holomophic scaling with superuniversal scaling exponents, showing that the system contains an emergent sub-modular discrete symmetry and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. A. Lutken , G. G. Ross

Fusion category symmetries are finite symmetries in 1+1 dimensions described by unitary fusion categories. We classify 1+1d time-reversal invariant bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with fusion category symmetry by using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-27 Kansei Inamura