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We derive explicit expressions for the conformal blocks of the Ising conformal field theory, for the correlators of an arbitrary number of primary fields. These results are obtained from the bosonized description of the Ising model.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-30 Eddy Ardonne , German Sierra

In this article, we provide a detailed construction and analysis of the mathematical conformal field theory of the free fermion, defined in the sense of Graeme Segal. We verify directly that the operators assigned to disks with two disks…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 James E. Tener

These are the lecture notes for a course taught at Tsinghua University in the spring of 2022. In these notes, we develop the basic theory of vertex operator algebras (VOAs) and their conformal blocks using complex-analytic methods. In…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Bin Gui

Any N=2 superconformal field theory (SCFT) in four dimensions has a sector of operators related to a two-dimensional chiral algebra containing a Virasoro sub-algebra. Moreover, there are well-known examples of isolated SCFTs whose chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

We generalize the results of [Comm. Math. Phys. 299 (2010), 825-866, arXiv:0911.3731] (hidden Grassmann structure IV) to the case of excited states of the transfer matrix of the six-vertex model acting in the so-called Matsubara direction.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Hermann Boos

We build a four-dimensional quaternion-parametrized conformal field theory (QCFT) using quaternion holomorphic functions as the generators of quaternionic conformal transformations. Taking the two-dimensional complex-parametrized conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-03 Sergio Giardino

In this work, we study non-equilibrium dynamics in Floquet conformal field theories (CFTs) in 1+1D, in which the driving Hamiltonian involves the energy-momentum density spatially modulated by an arbitrary smooth function. This generalizes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 Ruihua Fan , Yingfei Gu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Xueda Wen

Warped conformal field theories (WCFTs) are a novel class of non-relativistic theories. A simple, yet non-trivial, example of such theory is a massive Weyl fermion in $(1+1)$-dimensions, which we study in detail. We derive general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-23 Alejandra Castro , Diego M. Hofman , Gábor Sárosi

We find classes of driven conformal field theories (CFT) in d + 1 dimensions with d > 1, whose quench and Floquet dynamics can be computed exactly. The setup is suitable for studying periodic drives, consisting of square pulse protocols for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-23 Diptarka Das , Sumit R. Das , Arnab Kundu , Krishnendu Sengupta

We consider critical curves -- conformally invariant curves that appear at critical points of two-dimensional statistical mechanical systems. We show how to describe these curves in terms of the Coulomb gas formalism of conformal field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Rushkin , E. Bettelheim , I. A. Gruzberg , P. Wiegmann

We utilise bosonic Fock spaces, considered as Virasoro modules, to make free field realisations of the so-called staggered modules of two-dimensional logarithmic conformal field theories. A general formula for the $\beta$-invariant of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Michael Cromer

Conformal algebra is an axiomatic description of the operator product expansion of chiral fields in conformal field theory. On the other hand, it is an adequate tool for the study of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras satisfying the locality…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Bojko Bakalov , Victor G. Kac , Alexander A. Voronov

We propose a connection between conformal field theory (CFT) and the exact solution and integrability of the reduced BCS model of superconductivity. The relevant CFT is given by the $SU(2)_k$-WZW model in the singular limit when the level k…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 German Sierra

We discuss conformal field theories (CFTs) in rectangular geometries, and develop a formalism that involves a conformal boundary state for the 1+1d open system. We focus on the case of homogeneous boundary conditions (no insertion of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Roberto Bondesan , Jerome Dubail , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur

We continue our study of $\lambda$-deformed $\sigma$-models by setting up a $1/k$ perturbative expansion around the free field point for cosets, in particular for the $\lambda$-deformed $SU(2)/U(1)$ coset CFT. We construct an interacting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-28 George Georgiou , Konstantinos Sfetsos , Konstantinos Siampos

We present a collection of numerical bootstrap computations for 3d CFTs with a U(1) global symmetry. We test the accuracy of our method and fix conventions through a computation of bounds on the OPE coefficients for low-lying operators in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-28 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

We construct the stress-energy tensor correlation functions in probabilistic Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT) on the two-dimensional sphere by studying the variation of the LCFT correlation functions with respect to a smooth…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Antti Kupiainen , Joona Oikarinen

A concise review of the notions of elliptic functions, modular forms, and theta-functions is provided, devoting most of the paper to applications to Conformal Field Theory (CFT), introduced within the axiomatic framework of quantum field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolay M. Nikolov , Ivan T. Todorov

Two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) can be defined through its correlation functions. These must satisfy certain consistency conditions which arise from the cutting of world sheets along circles or intervals. The construction of a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Ingo Runkel , Jens Fjelstad , Jurgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert

The Checkerboard conformal field theory is an interesting representative of a large class of non-unitary, logarithmic Fishnet CFTs (FCFT) in arbitrary dimension which have been intensively studied in the last years. Its planar Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 Mikhail Alfimov , Gwenaël Ferrando , Vladimir Kazakov , Enrico Olivucci