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In the context of planar conformal gauge theory, we study five-point correlation functions between the interaction Lagrangian and four of the lightest single-trace, gauge-invariant scalar primaries. After performing two light-cone OPEs, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-16 Till Bargheer , Carlos Bercini , Bruno Fernandes , Vasco Gonçalves , Jeremy Mann

We apply the OPE inversion formula to thermal two-point functions of bosonic and fermionic CFTs in general odd dimensions. This allows us to analyze in detail the operator spectrum of these theories. We find that nontrivial thermal CFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-22 Anastasios C. Petkou , Andreas Stergiou

The operator product expansion (OPE) on the celestial sphere of conformal primary gluons and gravitons is studied. Asymptotic symmetries imply recursion relations between products of operators whose conformal weights differ by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-28 Monica Pate , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger , Ellis Ye Yuan

We compute numerically the dimensions and OPE coefficients of several operators in the 3d Ising CFT, and then try to reverse-engineer the solution to crossing symmetry analytically. Our key tool is a set of new techniques for computing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-20 David Simmons-Duffin

Using conformal field theoretic methods we calculate correlation functions of geometric observables in the loop representation of the O(n) model at the critical point. We focus on correlation functions containing twist operators, combining…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 Jacob J. H. Simmons , John Cardy

We compute the four-point function of scalar operators in CFTs with weakly broken higher spin symmetry at arbitrary 't Hooft coupling. We use the known three-point functions in these theories, the Lorentzian OPE inversion formula and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Gustavo J. Turiaci , Alexander Zhiboedov

Near lightcone correlators are dominated by operators with the lowest twist. We consider the contributions of such leading lowest twist multi-stress tensor operators to a heavy-heavy-light-light correlator in a CFT of any even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Robin Karlsson , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev , Petar Tadić

We introduce a new numerical algorithm based on semidefinite programming to efficiently compute bounds on operator dimensions, central charges, and OPE coefficients in 4D conformal and N=1 superconformal field theories. Using our algorithm,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

Higher-point functions of scalar operators are a rich observable in CFTs, as they contain OPE data involving multiple spinning operators. We derive the lightcone blocks for five- and six-point functions in the snowflake channel and use them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-05 António Antunes , Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Joao Vilas Boas

By calculating the second-order pole in the operator product expansion (OPE) between the spin-3 Casimir operator and the spin-4 Casimir operator known previously, the spin-5 Casimir operator is obtained in the coset model based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Changhyun Ahn , Hyunsu Kim

Using integrability, we construct (to leading order in perturbation theory) the explicit form of twist-three light-ray operators in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. This construction allows us to directly compute analytically continued CFT data…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-05 Alexandre Homrich , David Simmons-Duffin , Pedro Vieira

Bilocal light-ray operators which are Lorentz scalars, vectors or antisymmetric tensors, and which appear in various hard scattering QCD processes, are decomposed into operators of definite twist. These operators are harmonic tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Geyer , M. Lazar , D. Robaschik

Many two-dimensional conformal field theories have an alternative integrable scattering description, which reproduces their spectrum of conformal weights. Taking as an example the case of the Lee-Yang nonunitary CFT and the 3-state Potts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Zoltan Bajnok , Romuald A. Janik

To date, optical orientation of free-carrier spins and spin currents have been achieved by circularly polarized light, while the linearly polarized light has been used for optical alignment of electron momenta. Here we show that, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Tarasenko , E. L. Ivchenko

We calculate three-point functions of two protected operators and one twist-two operator with arbitrary even spin j in N=4 SYM theory to one-loop order. In order to carry out the calculations we project the indices of the spin j operator to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Jan Plefka , Konstantin Wiegandt

We employ an atomic spin model and present a systematic investigation from a single spin to a large system of over a million spins. To have an efficient spin switching, the electron initial momentum direction must closely follow the spin's…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-11 G. P. Zhang , Mitsuko Murakami

We study the defect operator product expansion (OPE) of displacement operators in free and interacting conformal field theories using replica methods. We show that as $n$ approaches $1$ a contact term can emerge when the OPE contains defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-21 Srivatsan Balakrishnan , Venkatesa Chandrasekaran , Thomas Faulkner , Adam Levine , Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam

We study conformal partial waves (CPWs) in Mellin space with totally symmetric external operators of arbitrary integer spin. The exchanged spin is arbitrary, and includes mixed symmetry and (partially)-conserved representations. In a basis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-08 Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

The linearized massless wave equation in four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes is known to admit two families of solutions that transform in highest-weight representations of the Lorentz group ${\rm SL}(2, \mathbb{C})$. The two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Elizabeth Himwich , Monica Pate

In light beams with circular or elliptic polarization, the transverse energy flow consists of the "spin" and "orbital" parts. Both of them can induce the orbital motion of microparticles suspended within the field of a light beam, and this…

Optics · Physics 2009-08-19 A. Ya. Bekshaev