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In parallel to the unified construction of relativistic Hamiltonians based solely on physical arguments [J. Chem. Phys. 160, 084111 (2024)], a unified implementation of relativistic wave function methods is achieved here via programming…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Ning Zhang , Wenjian Liu

We introduce a new approach to the study of the crossing equation for CFTs in the presence of a boundary. We argue that there is a basis for this equation related to the generalized free field solution. The dual basis is a set of linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-25 Apratim Kaviraj , Miguel F. Paulos

The recent emergence of the modern conformal bootstrap method for the study of conformal field theories (CFTs) has enabled the revisiting of old problems in classical critical phenomena described by three-dimensional CFTs. The study of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

Through coarse-graining, tensor network representations of a two-dimensional critical lattice model flow to a universal four-leg tensor, corresponding to a conformal field theory (CFT) fixed-point. We computed explicit elements of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-07 Atsushi Ueda , Masahito Yamazaki

We introduce a novel framework for Generalized Tensor Transforms (GTTs), constructed through an $n$-fold tensor product of an arbitrary $b \times b$ unitary matrix $W$. This construction generalizes many established transforms, by providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Alok Shukla , Prakash Vedula

We expose (without proofs) a unified computational approach to integrable structures (including recursion, Hamiltonian, and symplectic operators) based on geometrical theory of partial differential equations. We adopt a coordinate based…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-07-17 Iosif Krasil'shchik , Alexander Verbovetsky , Raffaele Vitolo

The numerical conformal bootstrap is used to study mixed correlators in $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in $d=4$ spacetime dimensions. Systems of four-point functions involving scalar chiral and real operators are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Daliang Li , David Meltzer , Andreas Stergiou

Conformal blocks play a central role in CFTs as the basic, theory-independent building blocks. However, only limited results are available concerning multipoint blocks associated with the global conformal group. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Sarthak Parikh

We study the conformal bootstrap for systems of correlators involving non-identical operators. The constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for such mixed correlators can be phrased in the language of semidefinite programming. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 Filip Kos , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

The one-dimensional (1D) fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) generalizes the Fourier transform, offering significant advantages in the time-frequency analysis of non-stationary signals. While various 2D extensions exist, such as the 2D…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Daxiang Li , Zhichao Zhang , Wei Yao

We study 2d N=4 superconformal field theories, focusing on its application on numerical bootstrap study. We derive the superconformal block by utilizing the global part of the super Virasoro algebra and set up the crossing equations for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Filip Kos , Jihwan Oh

We present a low entry-level introduction to the Conformal Bootstrap. We review and obtain several basic bounds using Linear Programming in machine precision in Mathematica, making the results accessible even to the most uneducated computer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 António Antunes

The coefficient $C_T$ of the conformal energy-momentum tensor two-point function is determined for the non-unitary scalar CFTs with four- and six-derivative kinetic terms. The results match those expected from large-$N$ calculations for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Hugh Osborn , Andreas Stergiou

We consider conformal perturbation theory for $n$-point functions on the sphere in general 2D CFTs to first order in coupling constant. We regulate perturbation integrals using canonical hard disk excisions of size $\epsilon$ around the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-22 Benjamin A. Burrington , Ida G. Zadeh

Genus two partition functions of 2d chiral conformal field theories are given by Siegel modular forms. We compute their conformal blocks and use them to perform the conformal bootstrap. The advantage of this approach is that it imposes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-18 Christoph A. Keller , Gregoire Mathys , Ida G. Zadeh

We study the conformal bootstrap for 4-point functions of stress tensors in parity-preserving 3d CFTs. To set up the bootstrap equations, we analyze the constraints of conformal symmetry, permutation symmetry, and conservation on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Anatoly Dymarsky , Filip Kos , Petr Kravchuk , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

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

We present a class of nonconforming virtual element methods for general fourth order partial differential equations in two dimensions. We develop a generic approach for constructing the necessary projection operators and virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Andreas Dedner , Alice Hodson

Conformal field theories have been long known to describe the fascinating universal physics of scale invariant critical points. They describe continuous phase transitions in fluids, magnets, and numerous other materials, while at the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 David Poland , Slava Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

We define the two-dimensional $O(n)$ conformal field theory as a theory that includes the critical dilute and dense $O(n)$ models as special cases, and depends analytically on the central charge. For generic values of $n\in\mathbb{C}$, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-11 Linnea Grans-Samuelsson , Rongvoram Nivesvivat , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Sylvain Ribault , Hubert Saleur