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Conformal field theory (CFT) has become an active area of research beyond its origins in statistical physics and attracted much attention due to its intrinsic mathematical interest, which reveals deep connections with other diverse branches…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Bolin Han

We propose a novel approach to study conformal field theories (CFTs) in general dimensions. In the conformal bootstrap program, one usually searches for consistent CFT data that satisfy crossing symmetry. In the new approach, we reverse the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-19 Wenliang Li

In these notes we explain how the CFT description of random matrix models can be used to perform actual calculations. Our basic example is the hermitian matrix model, reformulated as a conformal invariant theory of free fermions. We give an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan K. Kostov

Modular flow is a symmetry of the algebra of observables associated to spacetime regions. Being closely related to entanglement, it has played a key role in recent connections between information theory, QFT and gravity. However, little is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Johanna Erdmenger , Pascal Fries , Ignacio A. Reyes , Christian P. Simon

We investigate the behaviour of the mutual information $\mathcal{I}_{AB}$ between two "small" and wide separated spherical regions $A$ and $B$ in the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM gauge theory dual to Type IIB string theory in $AdS_5 \times S^5$. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-06 Javier Molina-Vilaplana

We study the Shannon mutual information in one-dimensional critical spin chains, following a recent conjecture (Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 017201 (2013)), as well as R\'enyi generalizations of it. We combine conformal field theory arguments with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-04 Jean-Marie Stéphan

The mutual information $I(A,B)$ of pairs of spatially separated regions satisfies, for any $d$-dimensional CFT, a set of structural physical properties such as positivity, monotonicity, clustering, or Poincar\'e invariance, among others. If…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 César A. Agón , Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini

The existence of an exactly marginal deformation in a conformal field theory is very special, but it is not well understood how this is reflected in the allowed dimensions and OPE coefficients of local operators. To shed light on this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Connor Behan

Conformal field theory (CFT) dispersion relations reconstruct correlators in terms of their double discontinuity. When applied to the crossing equation, such dispersive transforms lead to sum rules that suppress the double-twist sector of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Anh-Khoi Trinh

We describe in detail the method used in our previous work arXiv:1611.10344 to study the Wilson-Fisher critical points nearby generalized free CFTs, exploiting the analytic structure of conformal blocks as functions of the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Ferdinando Gliozzi , Andrea L. Guerrieri , Anastasios C. Petkou , Congkao Wen

We present several new results for the $N$-partite information, $I_N$, of spatial regions in the ground state of $d$-dimensional conformal field theories. First, we show that $I_N$ can be written in terms of a single $N$-point function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 César A. Agón , Pablo Bueno , Oscar Lasso Andino , Alejandro Vilar López

We investigate the short-interval expansion of the subsystem fidelity in two-dimensional conformal field theories (2D CFTs) using the operator product expansion (OPE) of twist operators. We obtain universal contributions from general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Bin Sui , Yihao Wang , Jiaju Zhang

We describe the dynamics of a single fermion in a dispersionless band coupled to the 2+1 dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) describing the quantum phase transition of a bosonic order parameter with N components. The fermionic spectral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-30 Andrea Allais , Subir Sachdev

We develop a general theory of a boson decomposition for both local and non-local interactions in lattice fermion models which allows us to describe fermionic degrees of freedom and collective charge and spin excitations on equal footing.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 A. N. Rubtsov , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein

We study the conformal bootstrap in fractional space-time dimensions, obtaining rigorous bounds on operator dimensions. Our results show strong evidence that there is a family of unitary CFTs connecting the 2D Ising model, the 3D Ising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 S. El-Showk , M. Paulos , D. Poland , S. Rychkov , D. Simmons-Duffin , A. Vichi

We continue the study of model-independent constraints on the unitary Conformal Field Theories in 4-Dimensions, initiated in arXiv:0807.0004. Our main result is an improved upper bound on the dimension \Delta of the leading scalar operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Vyacheslav S. Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

Despite great successes in the study of gapped phases, a comprehensive understanding of the gapless phases and their transitions is still under developments. In this paper, we study a general phenomenon in the space of (1+1)$d$ critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-28 Wenjie Ji , Shu-Heng Shao , Xiao-Gang Wen

We continue to investigate properties of the worldsheet conformal field theories (CFTs) which are conjectured to be dual to free large N gauge theories, using the mapping of Feynman diagrams to the worldsheet suggested in hep-th/0504229.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ofer Aharony , Justin R. David , Rajesh Gopakumar , Zohar Komargodski , Shlomo S. Razamat

Using conformal field theory (CFT) arguments we derive an infinite number of constraints on the large spin expansion of the anomalous dimensions and structure constants of higher spin operators. These arguments rely only on analiticity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi , Tomasz Lukowski

We study twist operators in higher dimensional CFT's. In particular, we express their conformal dimension in terms of the energy density for the CFT in a particular thermal ensemble. We construct an expansion of the conformal dimension in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Ling-Yan Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin