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We show that in boundary CFTs, there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the boundary operator expansion of the two-point correlation function and a power series expansion of the layer susceptibility. This general property allows the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-11 Parijat Dey , Tobias Hansen , Mykola Shpot

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) provides a universal framework for critical phenomena in the presence of boundaries. We determine BCFT data for the normal and ordinary boundary universality classes of the $1+1$-dimensional boundaries…

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The O$(N)$ vector model in the presence of a boundary has a non-trivial fixed point in $(4-\epsilon)$ dimensions and exhibits critical behaviors described by boundary conformal field theory. The spectrum of boundary operators is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 Tatsuma Nishioka , Yoshitaka Okuyama , Soichiro Shimamori

We study the boundary extraordinary transition of a three-dimensional (3D) tricritical $O(N)$ model. We first compute the mean-field Green's function with a general coupling of $|\vec \phi|^{2n}$ (with $n=3$ corresponding to the tricritical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-01 Xinyu Sun , Shao-Kai Jian

We consider a conformal field theory in the presence of a boundary, and explain how two-point correlators of mixed bulk-local operators can be bootstrapped by exploiting the analytical structure of the conformal blocks. This yields the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Alexander Söderberg Rousu

We study operators with large internal charge in boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) with internal symmetries. Using the state-operator correspondence and the existence of a macroscopic limit, we find a non-trivial relation between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Gabriel Cuomo , Márk Mezei , Avia Raviv-Moshe

We investigate the crossover behavior between special and ordinary surface transitions in three-dimensional semi-infinite Ising-like systems with random quenched bulk disorder. We calculate the surface crossover critical exponent $\Phi$,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Usatenko , Chin-Kun Hu

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 derive a universal asymptotic formula for generic boundary conditions for the average value of the bulk-to-boundary and boundary Operator Product Expansion coefficients of any unitary, compact two-dimensional Boundary CFT (BCFT) with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Tokiro Numasawa , Ioannis Tsiares

Recent advances in conformal field theory and critical phenomena have focused on the characterization of boundary or defects in a conformally invariant system. In this Letter we study the critical behavior of the three-dimensional Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Dorian Przetakiewicz , Stefan Wessel , Francesco Parisen Toldin

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 calculate the surface critical exponents of the ordinary transition occuring in semi-infinite, quenched dilute Ising-like systems. This is done by applying the field theoretic approach directly in d=3 dimensions up to the two-loop…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Shpot , Z. Usatenko , Chin-Kun Hu

Higher dimensional Euclidean Liouville conformal field theories (LCFTs) consist of a log-correlated real scalar field with a background charge and an exponential potential. We analyse the LCFT on a four-dimensional manifold with a boundary.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 Adwait Gaikwad , Amitay C. Kislev , Tom Levy , Yaron Oz

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 study the conformal field theory defined by the fourth-order operator on four-dimensional manifolds with boundaries, reformulating it through an auxiliary field so that the dynamics become second order. Within this framework, we compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Gregorio Paci , Sergey N. Solodukhin

We consider the bulk $\phi^3$ deformation of the free boundary conformal field theory in the $\epsilon$ expansion. We determine the leading corrections to the scaling dimensions of boundary fundamental operators and some boundary operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Yongwei Guo , Wenliang Li

We develop an analytic approach to Boundary Conformal Field Theory (BCFT), focussing on the two-point function of a general pair of scalar primary operators. The resulting crossing equation can be thought of as a vector equation in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Dalimil Mazáč , Leonardo Rastelli , Xinan Zhou

The extraordinary transition which occurs in the two-dimensional O(n) model for $n<1$ at sufficiently enhanced surface couplings is studied by conformal perturbation theory about infinite coupling and by finite-size scaling of the spectrum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Murray T Batchelor , John Cardy

We derive a dispersion relation for two-point correlation functions in defect conformal field theories. The correlator is expressed as an integral over a (single) discontinuity that is controlled by the bulk channel operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Lorenzo Bianchi , Davide Bonomi

In a recent paper [JHEP 11 (2020) 118], S. Giombi and H. Khanchandani studied the 1/N expansion of the O(N) model in semi-infinite space within the framework of conformal field theory in anti-de Sitter space. They presented a series…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-12 Kaoru Ohno , Yutaka Okabe
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