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We study the conformal bootstrap in fractional space-time dimensions, obtaining rigorous bounds on operator dimensions. Our results show strong evidence that there is a family of unitary CFTs connecting the 2D Ising model, the 3D Ising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 S. El-Showk , M. Paulos , D. Poland , S. Rychkov , D. Simmons-Duffin , A. Vichi

We extend and clarify the large-charge expansion of the conformal dimension $\Delta_Q$ of the lowest operator of charge $Q$ in nonrelativistic CFTs using the state-operator correspondence. The latter requires coupling the theory to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-02 Vito Pellizzani

We clarify questions related to the convergence of the OPE and conformal block decomposition in unitary Conformal Field Theories (for any number of spacetime dimensions). In particular, we explain why these expansions are convergent in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Duccio Pappadopulo , Slava Rychkov , Johnny Espin , Riccardo Rattazzi

We calculate the anomalous dimensions of operators with large global charge $J$ in certain strongly coupled conformal field theories in three dimensions, such as the O(2) model and the supersymmetric fixed point with a single chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Simeon Hellerman , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert , Masataka Watanabe

Quantum field theories with global symmetries simplify considerably in the large-charge limit allowing to compute correlators via a semiclassical expansion in the inverse powers of the conserved charges. A generalization of the approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-27 Oleg Antipin , Alexander Bednyakov , Jahmall Bersini , Pantelis Panopoulos , Andrey Pikelner

We apply the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) algorithm to the renormalization of scalar-QED theory, with a specific focus on the fixed-charge operator $\phi^Q$. Within the OPE framework, the anomalous dimension of the $\phi^Q$ operator is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Rijun Huang , Qingjun Jin , Yi Li

The 4D 4-point scattering amplitude of massless scalars via a massive exchange is expressed in a basis of conformal primary particle wavefunctions. This celestial amplitude is expanded in a basis of 2D conformal partial waves on the unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Alexander Atanasov , Walker Melton , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

The Weak Gravity Conjecture is typically stated as a bound on the mass-to-charge ratio of a particle in the theory. Alternatively, it has been proposed that its natural formulation is in terms of the existence of a particle which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 Ofer Aharony , Eran Palti

Correlation functions of local operators in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on hyperbolic space can be fully characterized by the set of QFT data $\lbrace \Delta_i,C_{ijk},b^{\hat{\mathcal{O}}}_j\rbrace$. These are the scaling dimensions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Manuel Loparco , Grégoire Mathys , Joao Penedones , Jiaxin Qiao , Xiang Zhao

We numerically study the crossing symmetry constraints in 4D CFTs, using previously introduced algorithms based on semidefinite programming. We study bounds on OPE coefficients of tensor operators as a function of their scaling dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesco Caracciolo , Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Benedict von Harling , Marco Serone

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 formally extend the CFT techniques introduced in arXiv:1505.00963, to $\phi^{\frac{2d_0}{d_0-2}}$ theory in $d=d_0-\epsilon$ dimensions and use it to compute anomalous dimensions near $d_0=3, 4$ in a unified manner. We also do a similar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-23 Pallab Basu , Chethan Krishnan

We probe the conformal block structure of a scalar four-point function in $d\geq2$ conformal field theories by including higher-order derivative terms in a bulk gravitational action. We consider a heavy-light four-point function as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-27 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang

The four point function of Conformal Field Theories (CFT's) with global symmetry gives rise to multiple crossing symmetry constraints. We explicitly study the correlator of four scalar operators transforming in the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Vichi

Three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with $N$ charged fermions contains monopole operators that have been studied perturbatively at large $N$. Here, we initiate the study of these monopole operators in the $4-\epsilon$ expansion by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-13 Shai M. Chester , Mark Mezei , Silviu S. Pufu , Itamar Yaakov

Measuring charge fluctuations within a subregion provides a powerful probe of quantum many-body systems. In two spatial dimensions, the shape dependence of the dimensionless corner contribution encodes universal data of quantum critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Xiao-Chuan Wu , Pok Man Tam , Xuyang Liang , Zenan Liu , Dao-Xin Yao , Zheng Yan , Shinsei Ryu

We use modular invariance and crossing symmetry of conformal field theory to reveal approximate reflection symmetries in the spectral decompositions of the partition function in two dimensions in the limit of large central charge and of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Hyungrok Kim , Petr Kravchuk , Hirosi Ooguri

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

The $O(N)$ model with scalar quartic interactions at its ultraviolet fixed point, and the $O(N)$ model with scalar cubic interactions at its infra-red fixed point are conjectured to be equivalent. This has been checked by comparing various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 I. Jack , D. R. T. Jones

We prove that every unitary two-dimensional conformal field theory (with no extended chiral algebra, and with central charges $c_L, c_R > 1$) contains a primary operator with dimension $\Delta_1$ that satisfies $0 < \Delta_1 < (c_L +…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Simeon Hellerman