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The excitation spectrum of specific conformal field theories (CFT) with central charge $c=1$ can be described in terms of quasi-particles with charges $Q=-p,+1$ and fractional statistics properties. Using the language of Jack polynomials,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Peysson , K. Schoutens

We consider a quantum junction described by a 1+1-dimensional boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). Our analysis focuses on correlations emerging at finite temperature, achieved through the computation of entanglement measures. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Luca Capizzi , Andrei Rotaru

We use the form factors of the quantum transfer matrix in the zero-temperature limit in order to study the two-point ground-state correlation functions of the XXZ chain in the antiferromagnetic massive regime. We obtain novel form factor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-05 Maxime Dugave , Frank Göhmann , Karol K. Kozlowski , Junji Suzuki

Evaluating a lattice path integral in terms of spectral data and matrix elements pertaining to a suitably defined quantum transfer matrix, we derive form-factor series expansions for the dynamical two-point functions of arbitrary local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-03 Frank Göhmann , Karol K. Kozlowski , Mikhail D. Minin

In this paper we deploy for the first time Reinforcement-Learning algorithms in the context of the conformal-bootstrap programme to obtain numerical solutions of conformal field theories (CFTs). As an illustration, we use a soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Gergely Kántor , Vasilis Niarchos , Constantinos Papageorgakis

We review a framework for the conformal bootstrap that does not rely on positivity and treats the infinite tower of high-dimension OPE contributions to conformal correlators through dispersion relations and neural networks. We apply it to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Vasilis Niarchos , Constantinos Papageorgakis

In this paper we consider the energy and momentum transport in (1+1)-dimension conformal field theories (CFTs) that are deformed by an irrelevant operator $T\bar{T}$, using the integrability based generalized hydrodynamics, and holography.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-23 Marko Medenjak , Giuseppe Policastro , Takato Yoshimura

We study conformal blocks for thermal one-point-functions on the sphere in conformal field theories of general dimension. These thermal conformal blocks satisfy second order Casimir differential equations and have integral representations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 Yan Gobeil , Alexander Maloney , Gim Seng Ng , Jie-qiang Wu

Warped conformal field theory (WCFT) is a two dimensional quantum field theory whose local symmetry algebra consists of a Virasoro algebra and a U(1) Kac-Moody algebra. In this paper, we study correlation functions for primary operators in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-11 Wei Song , Jianfei Xu

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to study a thermally isolated conformal field theory in four dimensions which undergoes a repeated deformation by an external periodic time-dependent source coupled to an operator of dimension Delta. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-03 Roberto Auzzi , Shmuel Elitzur , Sven Bjarke Gudnason , Eliezer Rabinovici

We propose new universal formulae for thermal two-point functions of scalar operators based on their analytic structure, constructed to manifestly satisfy all the bootstrap conditions. We derive a dispersion relation in the complexified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Julien Barrat , Deniz N. Bozkurt , Enrico Marchetto , Alessio Miscioscia , Elli Pomoni

We analyze the dynamical response functions of strongly interacting quantum critical states described by conformal field theories (CFTs). We construct a self-consistent holographic model that incorporates the relevant scalar operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Robert C. Myers , Todd Sierens , William Witczak-Krempa

We consider finite temperature dynamical correlation functions in the interacting delta-function Bose gas. In the low-temperature limit the asymptotic behaviour of correlation functions can be determined from conformal field theory. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fabian H. L. Essler , Vladimir E. Korepin , Franck T. Latremoliere

We study the thermal transport properties of general conformal field theories (CFTs) on curved spacetimes in the leading order viscous hydrodynamic limit. At the level of linear response, we show that the thermal transport is governed by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 Elliot Banks , Aristomenis Donos , Jerome P. Gauntlett , Tom Griffin , Luis Melgar

We develop the technology for Polyakov-Mellin (PM) bootstrap in one-dimensional conformal field theories (CFT$_1$). By adding appropriate contact terms, we bootstrap various effective field theories in AdS$_2$ and analytically compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Pietro Ferrero , Kausik Ghosh , Aninda Sinha , Ahmadullah Zahed

Every conformal field theory (CFT) above two dimensions contains an infinite set of Regge trajectories of local operators which, at large spin, asymptote to "double-twist" composites with vanishing anomalous dimension. In two dimensions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Scott Collier , Yan Gobeil , Henry Maxfield , Eric Perlmutter

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

We investigate proposals of how the form factor approach to compute correlation functions at zero temperature can be extended to finite temperature. For the two-point correlation function we conclude that the suggestion to use the usual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 O. A. Castro-Alvaredo , A. Fring

The thermodynamic approach to density functional theory (DFT) is used to derive a versatile theoretical framework for the treatment of finite-temperature (and in the limit, zero temperature) Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). The simplest…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 Nathan Argaman , Y. B. Band

We study the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for conformal field theories in the presence of a boundary, with a focus on the Ising model in various dimensions. We show that an analytic approach to the bootstrap is feasible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Pedro Liendo , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees