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Recently an efficient numerical method has been developed to implement the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity on the operator dimensions and OPE coefficients of conformal field theories (CFT) in diverse space-time dimensions. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Ferdinando Gliozzi

We study 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a globally conserved U(1) charge, placed in a chemical potential which is periodically modulated along the spatial direction $x$ with zero average: $\mu(x) = V \cos(kx)$. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-29 Paul Chesler , Andrew Lucas , Subir Sachdev

The Cubic CFT can be understood as the O(3) invariant CFT perturbed by a slightly relevant operator. In this paper, we use conformal perturbation theory together with the conformal data of the O(3) vector model to compute the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-03 Junchen Rong , Ning Su

We study at zero temperature a microscopic quantum spin-1 model on the fuzzy sphere that realizes the $O(2)$ Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory (CFT) in $(2+1)$-dimensional spacetime at a quantum critical point. Here, we use the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Arjun Dey , Loic Herviou , Christopher Mudry , Slava Rychkov , Andreas Martin Läuchli

The basic ingredient of CCFT holography is to regard four-dimensional amplitudes describing conformal wave packets as two-dimensional conformal correlation functions of the operators associated to external particles. By construction, these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Angelos Fotopoulos , Tomasz R. Taylor

We implement a version of conformal field theory (CFT) that gives a connection to SLE in a multiply connected domain. Our approach is based on the Gaussian free field and applies to CFTs with central charge $c \leq 1$. In this framework we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Tom Alberts , Sung-Soo Byun , Nam-Gyu Kang

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) are special classes of quantum field theories that find applications ranging from critical phenomena to theories of quantum gravity via holography. Understanding thermal effects in CFTs is crucial:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Alessio Miscioscia

We use holography to study a $(1+1)$-dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT) coupled to an impurity. The CFT is an $SU(N)$ gauge theory at large $N$, with strong gauge interactions. The impurity is an $SU(N)$ spin. We trigger an impurity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-19 Johanna Erdmenger , Carlos Hoyos , Andy O'Bannon , Ioannis Papadimitriou , Jonas Probst , Jackson M. S. Wu

We study 2-point correlation functions for scalar operators in position space through holography including bulk cubic couplings as well as higher curvature couplings to the square of the Weyl tensor. We focus on scalar operators with large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Hare Krishna , D. Rodriguez-Gomez

We argue that all consistent 4D quantum field theories obey a spacetime-averaged weak energy inequality $\langle T^{00} \rangle \ge -C/L^4$, where $L$ is the size of the smearing region, and $C$ is a positive constant that depends on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-03 Kara Farnsworth , Markus A. Luty , Valentina Prilepina

We consider the Regge limit of a CFT correlation function of two vector and two scalar operators, as appropriate to study small-x deep inelastic scattering in N=4 SYM or in QCD assuming approximate conformal symmetry. After clarifying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-08 Lorenzo Cornalba , Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones

We consider thermal stress-tensor two-point functions in holographic theories in the near-lightcone regime and analyse them using the operator product expansion (OPE). In the limit we consider only the leading-twist multi-stress tensors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-30 Chantelle Esper , Kuo-Wei Huang , Robin Karlsson , Andrei Parnachev , Samuel Valach

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalars in a conformal four-point correlator as a Stieltjes moment problem, and use Riemann-Liouville type fractional differential operators to generate classical moments from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

We identify a means to explicitly construct primary operators of free conformal field theories (CFTs) in spacetime dimensions $d=2,~3$, and $4$. Working in momentum space with spinors, we find that the $N$-distinguishable-particle Hilbert…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Brian Henning , Tom Melia

We develop the representation of interacting bulk gauge fields and charged scalar matter in AdS in terms of non-local observables in the dual CFT. We work in holographic gauge in the bulk, A_z = 0. The correct statement of micro-causality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-17 Daniel Kabat , Gilad Lifschytz

We discuss scattering in a CFT via the conformal partial-wave analysis and the Regge limit. The focus of this paper is on understanding an OPE with Minkowski conformal blocks. Starting with a t-channel OPE, it leads to an expansion for an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Timothy G. Raben , Chung-I Tan

We construct smeared CFT operators which represent a scalar field in AdS interacting with gravity. The guiding principle is micro-causality: scalar fields should commute with themselves at spacelike separation. To O(1/N) we show that a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Daniel Kabat , Gilad Lifschytz

We discuss kinematical features of conformal Carroll field theories in three dimensions (3d). Conformal extension of Carroll algebra is infinite dimensional even in 3d unlike its relativistic counterpart, and hence 3d Carroll CFTs share…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-01 Sudipta Dutta

We demonstrate how table-top settings combining hyperbolic lattices with nonlinear dynamics universally encode aspects of the bulk-boundary-correspondence between gravity in anti-de-Sitter (AdS) space and conformal field theory (CFT). Our…

In d-dimensional CFTs with a large number of degrees of freedom an important set of operators consists of the stress tensor and its products, multi stress tensors. Thermalization of such operators, the equality between their expectation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-12 Robin Karlsson , Andrei Parnachev , Petar Tadić