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We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study boundary quantum electrodynamics, the theory of a four dimensional photon in a half space coupled to charged conformal matter on the boundary. This system is believed to be a boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

We investigate $O(N)$ boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) with boundary interactions in $d=4-\epsilon$ and $d=3-\epsilon$ employing the analytic bootstrap. By deriving universal constraints on conformal data, we show that infinitely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Xinyu Sun , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

We use modern bootstrap techniques to study half-BPS line defects in 4d N=4 superconformal theories. Specifically, we consider the 1d CFT with OSP(4*|4) superconformal symmetry living on such a defect. Our analysis is general and based only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli , Vladimir Mitev

This paper focuses on the analysis of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal theories in the presence of a defect from the point of view of the conformal bootstrap. We will concentrate first on the case of codimension one, where the defect is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli

We study numerically the 6D (2,0) superconformal bootstrap using the soft-Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm as a stochastic optimizer. We focus on the four-point functions of scalar superconformal primaries in the energy-momentum multiplet.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-25 Gergely Kántor , Vasilis Niarchos , Constantinos Papageorgakis , Paul Richmond

We discuss an idea of how 3D critical exponents can be determined by Conformal Field Theory techniques.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-10 Slava Rychkov

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with MN and tetragonal global symmetry in $d=2+1$ dimensions are relevant for structural, antiferromagnetic and helimagnetic phase transitions in a wide class of materials. The study of these theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-23 Andreas Stergiou

In this paper, we present a framework for the analytic bootstrap of three-point energy correlators, a crucial observable in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Our approach combines spherical contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Jianyu Gong , Andrzej Pokraka , Kai Yan , Xiaoyuan Zhang

In this paper we introduce the characteristic dimension of a four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory, which is an extraordinary simple invariant determined by the scaling dimensions of its Coulomb branch operators. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-14 Sergio Cecotti , Michele Del Zotto , Mario Martone , Robert Moscrop

We apply the numerical conformal bootstrap to correlators of Coulomb and Higgs branch operators in $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories. We start by revisiting previous results on single correlators of Coulomb branch operators. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

We construct a new $N=4$ non-semisimple gauged supergravity in three dimensions with $E_{6(2)}/SU(6)\times SU(2)$ scalar manifold and $SO(4)\ltimes \mathbf{T}^6$ gauge group. Depending on the values of the gauge coupling constants, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-24 Parinya Karndumri

Quantum phase transitions out of a symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase in (1+1) dimensions into an adjacent, topologically distinct SPT phase protected by the same symmetry or a trivial gapped phase, are typically described by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Gil Young Cho , Ken Shiozaki , Shinsei Ryu , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

We investigate the conformal bootstrap approach to $O(N)$ symmetric CFTs in five dimension with particular emphasis on the lower bound on the current central charge. The bound has a local minimum for all $N>1$, and in the large $N$ limit we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-07 Yu Nakayama , Tomoki Ohtsuki

This talk is based on a recent paper$^{1}$ of ours. In an attempt to understand three-dimensional conformal field theories, we study in detail one such example --the large $N$ limit of the $O(N)$ non-linear sigma model at its non-trivial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Guruswamy , S. G. Rajeev , P. Vitale

Recent programs on conformal bootstrap suggest an empirical relationship between the existence of non-trivial conformal field theories and non-trivial features such as a kink in the unitarity bound of conformal dimensions in the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Yu Nakayama

We study the consistency of four-point functions of half-BPS chiral primary operators of weight p in four-dimensional N=4 superconformal field theories. The resulting conformal bootstrap equations impose non-trivial bounds for the scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi

We study half-BPS line defects in $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories using the bootstrap approach. We concentrate on local excitations constrained to the defect, which means the system is a $1d$ defect CFT with $\mathfrak{osp}(4^*|2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

We analyze the conformal bootstrap constraints in theories with four supercharges and a global $O(N) \times U(1)$ flavor symmetry in $3 \leq d \leq 4$ dimensions. In particular, we consider the 4-point function of $O(N)$-fundamental chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-25 Shai M. Chester , Luca V. Iliesiu , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We employ the conformal bootstrap to re-examine the problem of finding the critical behavior of four-Fermion theory at its strong coupling fixed point. Existence of a solution of the bootstrap equations indicates self-consistency of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Wei Chen , Yuri Makeenko , Gordon W Semenoff

We explore the space of extremal functionals in the conformal bootstrap. By recasting the bootstrap problem as a set of non-linear equations parameterized by the CFT data, we find an efficient algorithm for converging to the extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi