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Two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) has several sources: the search for simple examples of quantum field theory, the description of surface critical phenomena, the study of (super)string vacua. In the present overview of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 I. T. Todorov

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 introduce a new numerical algorithm based on semidefinite programming to efficiently compute bounds on operator dimensions, central charges, and OPE coefficients in 4D conformal and N=1 superconformal field theories. Using our algorithm,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

We describe an approach to logarithmic conformal field theories as limits of sequences of ordinary conformal field theories with varying central charge c. Logarithmic behaviour arises from degeneracies in the spectrum of scaling dimensions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-25 John Cardy

We consider a conformal field theory in two dimensions in which an external perturbation is placed. We study the energy flux and entanglement entropy for one, two and multiple intervals and give a suggestion relating the two in some cases.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Talya Vaknin

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 study conformal field theory on two-dimensional orbifolds and show this to be an effective way to analyze physical effects of geometric singularities with angular deficits. They are closely related to boundaries and cross caps.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Zheng Yin

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

Higher order conformal perturbation theory is studied for theories with and without boundaries. We identify systematically the universal quantities in the beta function equations, and we give explicit formulae for the universal coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-27 Matthias R. Gaberdiel , Anatoly Konechny , Cornelius Schmidt-Colinet

We study the problem of finding exactly marginal deformations of N=1 superconformal field theories in four dimensions. We find that the only way a marginal chiral operator can become not exactly marginal is for it to combine with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Daniel Green , Zohar Komargodski , Nathan Seiberg , Yuji Tachikawa , Brian Wecht

We consider deformations of CFTs from the perspective of parallel transport in moduli space. In particular, we show how the deformations of individual operators can be computed and we also explore how these ideas can be extended to more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Hasan Mahmood , R. A. Reid-Edwards

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 explore some consequences of the crossing symmetry for defect conformal field theories, focusing on codimension one defects like flat boundaries or interfaces. We study surface transitions of the 3d Ising and other O(N) models through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 F. Gliozzi , P. Liendo , M. Meineri , A. Rago

We present an analytic study of conformal field theories on the real projective space $\mathbb{RP}^d$, focusing on the two-point functions of scalar operators. Due to the partially broken conformal symmetry, these are non-trivial functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani , Xinan Zhou

We provide numerical evidence that the low-lying part of the entanglement spectrum of a real-space block (i.e. a single interval) of a one-dimensional quantum many body system at a conformal critical point corresponds to the energy spectrum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-05 Andreas M. Läuchli

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

We establish the emergence of a conformal field theory (CFT) in a (1+1)-dimensional hybrid quantum circuit right at the measurement-driven entanglement transition by revealing space-time conformal covariance of entanglement entropies and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Matthew P. A. Fisher

This paper is primarily intended as an introduction for the mathematically inclined to some of the rich algebraic combinatorics arising in for instance CFT. It is essentially self-contained, apart from some of the background motivation and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Terry Gannon

We explore a general mechanism that allows (1+1)d CFTs to have interesting interface conformal manifolds even in the absence of any continuous internal symmetry or supersymmetry. This is made possible by the breaking of an enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-16 Andrea Antinucci , Christian Copetti , Giovanni Galati , Giovanni Rizi

We present new numerical results on the space of local, unitary, parity-preserving conformal field theories (CFTs) in three dimensions from the stress tensor bootstrap. In bounds maximizing certain OPE coefficients, we find a plethora of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Rajeev S. Erramilli , Matthew S. Mitchell