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We interpret Janus as an interface in a conformal field theory and study its properties. The Janus is created by an exactly marginal operator and we study its effect on the interface conformal field theory on the Janus. We do this by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Dongsu Bak , Andreas Gustavsson , Soo-Jong Rey

We study conformal field theories (CFTs) on curved spaces including both orientable and unorientable manifolds possibly with boundaries. We first review conformal transformations on curved manifolds. We then compute the identity components…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-24 Ken Kikuchi

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 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 use analytic bootstrap techniques for a CFT with an interface or a boundary. Exploiting the analytic structure of the bulk and boundary conformal blocks we extract the CFT data. We further constrain the CFT data by applying the equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-21 Parijat Dey , Alexander Söderberg

We study the critical two-dimensional Ising model with a defect line (altered bond strength along a line) in the continuum limit. By folding the system at the defect line, the problem is mapped to a special case of the critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaki Oshikawa , Ian Affleck

We search for new defect universality classes by considering localised interactions placed on an RG interface separating two interacting multiscalar CFTs in $4-\varepsilon$ dimensions. Studying interactions spread throughout the entire…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Sabine Harribey , William Pannell

We study conformal field theories for strings propagating on compact, seven-dimensional manifolds with G_2 holonomy. In particular, we describe the construction of rational examples of such models. We argue that analogues of Gepner models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 R. Roiban , J. Walcher

We study the interfaces between lattice Laughlin states at different fillings. We propose a class of model wavefunctions for such systems constructed using conformal field theory. We find a nontrivial form of charge conservation at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-02 Błażej Jaworowski , Anne E. B. Nielsen

In this paper we apply the previously derived formalism of permutation orbifold conformal field theories to N=2 supersymmetric minimal models. By interchanging extensions and permutations of the factors we find a very interesting structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-03 M. Maio , A. N. Schellekens

Some interfaces between two different topologically ordered systems can be gapped. In earlier work it has been shown that such gapped interfaces can themselves be effective one dimensional topological systems that possess localized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 Julian May-Mann , Taylor L. Hughes

We construct generalized symmetries in two-dimensional symmetric product orbifold CFTs $\text{Sym}^N(\mathcal{T}),$ for a generic seed CFT $\mathcal{T}$. These symmetries are more general than the universal and maximally symmetric ones…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Nathan Benjamin , Suzanne Bintanja , Yu-Jui Chen , Michael Gutperle , Conghuan Luo , Dikshant Rathore

We study one and two point functions of conformal field theories on spaces of maximal symmetry with and without boundaries and investigate their spectral representations. Integral transforms are found, relating the spectral decomposition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Kurt Hinterbichler , James Stokes , Mark Trodden

We consider the limit of two-dimensional N=(2,2) superconformal minimal models when the central charge approaches c=3. Starting from a geometric description as non-linear sigma models, we show that one can obtain two different limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Stefan Fredenhagen , Cosimo Restuccia

For a conformal theory it is natural to seek the conformal moduli space, M_c to which it belongs, generated by the exactly marginal deformations. By now we should have the tools to determine M_c in the presence of enough supersymmetry. Here…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Barak Kol

We construct a set of non-rational conformal field theories that consist of deformations of Toda field theory for sl(n). Besides conformal invariance, the theories still enjoy a remnant infinite-dimensional affine symmetry. The case n=3 is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Juan Pablo Babaro , Gaston Giribet , Arash Ranjbar

The theory of a massless two-dimensional scalar field with a periodic boundary interaction is considered. At a critical value of the period this system defines a conformal field theory and can be re-expressed in terms of free fermions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 J. Polchinski , L. Thorlacius

We introduce a finite-dimensional algebra that controls the possible boundary conditions of a conformal field theory. For theories that are obtained by modding out a Z_2 symmetry (corresponding to a so-called D_odd-type, or half-integer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Fuchs , C. Schweigert

We provide a brief but self-contained review of two-dimensional conformal field theory, from the basic principles to some of the simplest models. From the representations of the Virasoro algebra on the one hand, and the state-field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-14 Sylvain Ribault

We consider a 2-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) obtained from twisted compactification of the 4-dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on a Riemann surface with boundary. We find the boundary conditions to preserve some of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-25 Koichi Nagasaki , Satoshi Yamaguchi