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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 explain how the axioms of Conformal Field Theory are used to make predictions about critical exponents of continuous phase transitions in three dimensions, via a procedure called the conformal bootstrap. The method assumes conformal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Slava Rychkov

We use the conformal bootstrap to perform a precision study of the operator spectrum of the critical 3d Ising model. We conjecture that the 3d Ising spectrum minimizes the central charge c in the space of unitary solutions to crossing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-04 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos , David Poland , Slava Rychkov , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

We present a systematic exploration of conformal field theories (CFTs) constrained by duality-inspired fusion rules using the conformal bootstrap. We classify the operator spectrum into three sectors: $[\sigma]$, $[\epsilon]$, and $[1]$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Yu Nakayama , Toshiki Onagi

The tricritical Ising CFT is the IR fixed-point of $\lambda\phi^6$ theory. It can be seen as a one-parameter family of CFTs connecting between an $\varepsilon$-expansion near the upper critical dimension 3 and the exactly solved minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Johan Henriksson

We combine supersymmetric localization results and the numerical conformal bootstrap technique to study the 3d maximally supersymmetric (${\cal N} = 8$) CFT on $N$ coincident M2-branes (the $U(N)_k \times U(N)_{-k}$ ABJM theory at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Nathan B. Agmon , Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu

Using the numerical modular bootstrap, we constrain the space of 1+1d CFTs with a finite non-invertible global symmetry described by a fusion category $\mathcal{C}$. We derive universal and rigorous upper bounds on the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao

This thesis contains three main parts, which are largely independent. In the first part we deal with the boundary bootstrap in supersymmetric factorized scattering theory. We give a description of supersymmetry in the case when the space is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-11-21 Gabor Zsolt Toth

We compute the superconformal partial waves of the four-point correlator $\langle JJJJ\rangle$, in which the external operator $J$ is the superconformal primary of the $4D$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ stress-tensor multiplet $\mathcal{J}$. We develop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-07 Zhijin Li

We develop a novel numerical bootstrap for unitary, crossing-symmetric conformal field theories, focusing on moment observables defined as weighted averages over conformal data. Providing a global and coarse-grained probe of the operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Li-Yuan Chiang , David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

We constrain the spectrum of two-dimensional unitary, compact conformal field theories with central charge c > 1 using modular bootstrap. Upper bounds on the gap in the dimension of primary operators of any spin, as well as in the dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-23 Scott Collier , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Xi Yin

The crossing equations of a conformal field theory can be systematically truncated to a finite, closed system of polynomial equations. In certain cases, solutions of the truncated equations place strict bounds on the space of all unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Thomas Hartman , Amirhossein Tajdini

We initiate the conformal bootstrap study of Quantum Electrodynamics in $2+1$ space-time dimensions (QED$_{3}$) with $N$ flavors of charged fermions by focusing on the 4-point function of four monopole operators with the lowest unit of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu

The Ising critical exponents $\eta$, $\nu$ and $\omega$ are determined up to one-per-thousand relative error in the whole range of dimensions $3 \le d < 4$, using numerical conformal-bootstrap techniques. A detailed comparison is made with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-13 Claudio Bonanno , Andrea Cappelli , Mikhail Kompaniets , Satoshi Okuda , Kay Jörg Wiese

We study two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with boundaries via the conformal bootstrap. We derive a positive semi-definite program from crossing symmetry of three observables: the annulus partition function, the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Marco Meineri , Bharathkumar Radhakrishnan

We propose a novel procedure of assigning a pair of non-unitary topological quantum field theories (TQFTs), TFT$_\pm [\mathcal{T}_{\rm rank \;0}]$, to a (2+1)D interacting $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) $\mathcal{T}_{\rm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Dongmin Gang , Sungjoon Kim , Kimyeong Lee , Myungbo Shim , Masahito Yamazaki

We discuss a candidate for a minimal interacting 4-dimensional N=1 superconformal field theory (SCFT). The model contains a chiral primary operator u satisfying the chiral ring relation u^2=0, and its scaling dimension is \Delta(u)=1.5. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-14 Dan Xie , Kazuya Yonekura

We review the effective field theory (EFT) bootstrap by formulating it as an infinite-dimensional semidefinite program (SDP), built from the crossing symmetric sum rules and the S-matrix primal ansatz. We apply the program to study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 Yue-Zhou Li

We study the conformal bootstrap for 3D CFTs with O(N) global symmetry. We obtain rigorous upper bounds on the scaling dimensions of the first O(N) singlet and symmetric tensor operators appearing in the $\phi_i \times \phi_j$ OPE, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-16 Filip Kos , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

We bootstrap the deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) and 3D Quantum Electrodynamics (QED$_3$) coupled to $N_f$ flavors of two-component Dirac fermions. We show the lattice and perturbative results on the $SO(5)$ symmetric DQCP are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Zhijin Li