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We study scalar conformal field theories whose large $N$ spectrum is fixed by the operator dimensions of either Ising model or Lee-Yang edge singularity. Using numerical bootstrap to study CFTs with $S_N\otimes Z_2$ symmetry, we find a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Junchen Rong , Ning Su

We review the effective field theory (EFT) bootstrap by formulating it as an infinite-dimensional semidefinite program (SDP), built from the crossing symmetric sum rules and the S-matrix primal ansatz. We apply the program to study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 Yue-Zhou Li

The crossing equations of a conformal field theory can be systematically truncated to a finite, closed system of polynomial equations. In certain cases, solutions of the truncated equations place strict bounds on the space of all unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Thomas Hartman , Amirhossein Tajdini

In this paper, we propose a conformally covariant momentum space representation of CFT correlation functions. We call it the AdS S-matrix. This representation has the property that it reduces to the S-matrix in the flat space limit. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Abhijit Gadde , Trakshu Sharma

In this work we report on a new bootstrap method for quantum mechanical problems that closely mirrors the setup from conformal field theory (CFT). We use the equations of motion to develop an analogue of the conformal block expansion for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Colin Oscar Nancarrow , Yuan Xin

We initiate the S-matrix bootstrap analysis of theories with non-invertible symmetries in (1+1) dimensions. Our previous work showed that crossing symmetry of S-matrices in such theories is modified, with modification characterized by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-04 Christian Copetti , Lucia Cordova , Shota Komatsu

This article is an introduction to two currently very active research programs, the Conformal Bootstrap and Scattering Amplitudes. Rather than attempting full surveys, the emphasis is on common ideas and methods shared by these two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-07 Henriette Elvang

Integrable Quantum Field Theories can be solved exactly using bootstrap techniques based on their elastic and factorisable S-matrix. While knowledge of the scattering amplitudes reveals the exact spectrum of particles and their on-shell…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-30 M. Lencsés , G. Mussardo , G. Takács

We study the numerical bounds obtained using a conformal-bootstrap method - advocated in ref. [1] but never implemented so far - where different points in the plane of conformal cross ratios $z$ and $\bar z$ are sampled. In contrast to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-04 Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Benedict von Harling , Marco Serone

The bootstrap program for 1+1-dimensional integrable Quantum Field Theories (QFT's) is developed to a large extent for the Homogeneous sine-Gordon (HSG) models. This program can be divided into various steps, which include the computation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo

Using the fact that flat space with a boundary is related by a Weyl transformation to anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, one may study observables in boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) by placing a CFT in AdS. In addition to correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani

We study the conformal bootstrap constraints for 3D conformal field theories with a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ or parity symmetry, assuming a single relevant scalar operator $\epsilon$ that is invariant under the symmetry. When there is additionally a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Alexander Atanasov , Aaron Hillman , David Poland

Symmetries play a central role in quantum many-body physics, yet uncovering them systematically remains challenging. We introduce a bootstrap framework designed to reconstruct the representation theory of hidden finite group symmetries of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Chen Bai , Zihan Zhou , Bastien Lapierre , Shinsei Ryu

The Euclidean Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space provides a natural framework for studying boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We analyze the conformal boundary conditions of the critical O$(N)$ model in $d=4-\epsilon$ dimensions using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Simone Giombi , Zimo Sun

We revisit the space of gapped quantum field theories with a global O(N) symmetry in two spacetime dimensions. Previous works using S-matrix bootstrap revealed a rich space in which integrable theories such as the non-linear sigma model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-07 Lucia Cordova , Miguel Correia , Alessandro Georgoudis , Antoine Vuignier

For QFTs in AdS the boundary correlation functions remain conformal even if the bulk theory has a scale. This allows one to constrain RG flows with numerical conformal bootstrap methods. We apply this idea to flows between two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-15 António Antunes , Edoardo Lauria , Balt C. van Rees

We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study boundary quantum electrodynamics, the theory of a four dimensional photon in a half space coupled to charged conformal matter on the boundary. This system is believed to be a boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

We construct an effective Quantum Field Theory for the wrapping effects in 1+1 dimensional models of factorised scattering. The recently developed graph-theoretical approach to TBA gives the perturbative desctiption of this QFT. For the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-06 Ivan Kostov

The boundary correlation functions for a Quantum Field Theory (QFT) in an Anti-de Sitter (AdS) background can stay conformally covariant even if the bulk theory undergoes a renormalization group (RG) flow. Studying such correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 António Antunes , Miguel S. Costa , João Penedones , Aaditya Salgarkar , Balt C. van Rees

S-matrix is one of the fundamental observables of the quantum theory of relativistic particles. There have been attempts to understand the quantum dynamics of relativistic particles abstractly in terms of S-matrix bypassing a Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Parthiv Haldar