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Motivated by the limited interaction between the mathematical physics community and theoretical physicists - particularly in high-energy theory - we present a computation that is typically the first example in QFT courses but, to our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 H. A. C. Grande , J. C. A Barata

We revisit scalar $\phi^4$ theory and construct a reorganized perturbative expansion in which the kinetic operator, rather than the quartic interaction, is treated as the perturbation. Starting from the exactly solvable $0$-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Eugene Chen

We construct a four supercharges Liouville superconformal field theory in four dimensions. The Liouville superfield is chiral and its lowest component is a log-correlated complex scalar whose real part carries a background charge. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-01 Tom Levy , Yaron Oz , Avia Raviv-Moshe

We study a (1+1)-dimensional quantum circuit consisting of Haar-random unitary gates and projective measurements that conserve a total $U(1)$ charge and thus have $U(1)$ symmetry. In addition to a measurement-induced entanglement transition…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-31 Hisanori Oshima , Yohei Fuji

We continue to investigate properties of the worldsheet conformal field theories (CFTs) which are conjectured to be dual to free large N gauge theories, using the mapping of Feynman diagrams to the worldsheet suggested in hep-th/0504229.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ofer Aharony , Justin R. David , Rajesh Gopakumar , Zohar Komargodski , Shlomo S. Razamat

The falling charge puzzle in gravitational field is well known due to the discussions of radiation. The puzzle lies in the heart of linking the electromagnetism and gravity. Up to date few discussions have fully taken account of quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Hai-Jhun Wanng

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of the auxiliary scalar field \lambda(x) with itself, in the conformally invariant O(N) Vector Model for 2<d<4, to leading order in 1/N in a strip-like geometry with one finite dimension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Anastasios C. Petkou , Nicholas D. Vlachos

For any unitary conformal field theory in two dimensions with the central charge $c$, we prove that, if there is a nontrivial primary operator whose conformal dimension $\Delta$ vanishes in some limit on the conformal manifold, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Hirosi Ooguri , Yifan Wang

We investigate a non solvable two-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model with nearest neighbor plus weak finite range interactions of strength \lambda. We rigorously establish one of the predictions of Conformal Field Theory (CFT), namely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Alessandro Giuliani , Vieri Mastropietro

Considering theories in sectors of large global charge $Q$ results in a semiclassical effective field theory (EFT) description for some strongly-coupled conformal field theories (CFTs) with continuous global symmetries. Hence, when studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Orestis Loukas , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert , Debajyoti Sarkar

We consider the Regge limit of the CFT correlation functions $\langle {\cal J} {\cal J} {\cal O}{\cal O}\rangle$ and $\langle TT {\cal O}{\cal O}\rangle$, where ${\cal J}$ is a vector current, $T$ is the stress tensor and ${\cal O}$ is some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Miguel S. Costa , Tobias Hansen , João Penedones

We propose that large quantum fluctuations of the conformal factor drastically modify classical general relativity at cosmological distance scales, resulting in a scale invariant phase of quantum gravity in the far infrared. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 I. Antoniadis , P. O. Mazur , E. Mottola

Conformal field theory (CFT) is the key to various critical phenomena. So far, most of studies focus on the critical exponents of various universalities, corresponding to conformal dimensions of CFT primary fields. However, other important…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-02 Liangdong Hu , Yin-Chen He , W. Zhu

While sign-coherent 4-dimensional structures cannot dominate topological charge fluctuations in the QCD vacuum at all scales due to reflection positivity, it is possible that enhanced coherence exists over extended space-time regions of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Horvath , S. J. Dong , T. Draper , F. X. Lee , K. F. Liu , N. Mathur , H. B. Thacker , J. B. Zhang

QCD in $d=4-2\epsilon$ space-time dimensions possesses a nontrivial critical point. Scale invariance usually implies conformal symmetry so that there are good reasons to expect that QCD at the critical point restricted to the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 V. M. Braun , A. N. Manashov , S. Moch , M. Strohmaier

Using conformal field theory (CFT) arguments we derive an infinite number of constraints on the large spin expansion of the anomalous dimensions and structure constants of higher spin operators. These arguments rely only on analiticity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi , Tomasz Lukowski

To make sense of quantum field theory in an arbitrary (globally hyperbolic) curved spacetime, the theory must be formulated in a local and covariant manner in terms of locally measureable field observables. Since a generic curved spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Hollands , R. M. Wald

$q$-charges describe the possible actions of a generalized symmetry on $q$-dimensional operators. In Part I of this series of papers, we describe $q$-charges for invertible symmetries; while the discussion of $q$-charges for non-invertible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-10 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with $U(m)\times U(n)$ global symmetry in $d=3$ dimensions have been studied for years due to their potential relevance to the chiral phase transition of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this work such CFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

The large-charge master field which generates all n-point correlation functions with an insertion of large charge Q in non-relativistic conformal field theory is obtained. This field is used to compute Schr\"odinger-invariant n-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-19 Silas R. Beane , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert