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The $O(N)$ Non-Linear Sigma Model (NLSM) in $d=2+\epsilon$ has long been conjectured to describe the same conformal field theory (CFT) as the Wilson-Fisher (WF) $O(N)$ fixed point obtained from the $\lambda(\phi^2)^2$ model in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-10 Fabiana De Cesare , Slava Rychkov

Quantum field theories with quenched disorder are so hard to study that even exactly solvable free theories present puzzling aspects. We consider a free scalar field $\phi$ in $d$ dimensions coupled to a random source $h$ with quenched…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Alessandro Piazza , Marco Serone , Emilio Trevisani

We study large charge sectors in the $O(N)$ model in $6-\epsilon $ dimensions. For $4<d<6$, in perturbation theory, the quartic $O(N)$ theory has a UV stable fixed point at large $N$. It was recently argued that this fixed point can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-13 Guillermo Arias-Tamargo , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez , Jorge G. Russo

We study Quantum Electrodynamics in d=3 (QED_3) coupled to N_f flavors of fermions. The theory flows to an IR fixed point for N_f larger than some critical number N_f^c. For N_f<= N_f^c, chiral-symmetry breaking is believed to take place.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Zohar Komargodski , Itamar Shamir , Emmanuel Stamou

In arXiv:1909.01269 it was shown that the scaling dimension of the lightest charge $n$ operator in the $U(1)$ model at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point in $d=4-\varepsilon$ can be computed semiclassically for arbitrary values of $\lambda n$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-14 Gil Badel , Gabriel Cuomo , Alexander Monin , Riccardo Rattazzi

We study the fixed point of the three-dimensional NJL model in a double-scaling limit where both the charge $Q$ and the number of fermion flavors $N$ become large with a fixed ratio $q=Q/(2N)$. While a similar analysis has been performed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-29 Jahmall Bersini , Simeon Hellerman , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert

We study four-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with an abelian $U(1)$ global symmetry using the conformal bootstrap approach. We obtain numerical bounds on the scaling dimensions of low-lying operators, the stress-tensor central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , Andrea Manenti , Marten Reehorst , Alessandro Vichi

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

We develop a semiclassical framework to determine scaling dimensions of neutral composite operators in scalar conformal field theories. For the critical Ising $\lambda\phi^4$ theory in $d=4-\epsilon$, we obtain the full spectrum of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-12 Oleg Antipin , Jahmall Bersini , Jacob Hafjall , Giulia Muco , Francesco Sannino

We consider $O(N)$-symmetric bosonic $\phi^4$ field theories above four dimensions, and propose a new reformulation in terms of an irreducible tensorial field with a cubic and Yukawa terms. The $\phi^4$ field theory so rewritten exhibits…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-13 Igor F. Herbut , Lukas Janssen

We consider scalar QED with $N_f$ flavors in AdS$_D$. For $D<4$ the theory is strongly-coupled in the IR. We use the spin 1 spectral representation to compute and efficiently resum the bubble diagram in AdS, in order to obtain the exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-12 Ankur , Dean Carmi , Lorenzo Di Pietro

We revisit the scalar $O(N)$ model in the dimension range $4<d<6$ and study the effects caused by its metastability. As shown in previous work, this model formally possesses a fixed point where, perturbatively in the $1/N$ expansion, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Simone Giombi , Richard Huang , Igor R. Klebanov , Silviu S. Pufu , Grigory Tarnopolsky

We explore the space of scalar line, surface and interface defect field theories in $d=4-\varepsilon$ by examining their stability properties under generic deformations. Examples are known of multiple stable line defect Conformal Field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 William H. Pannell

We construct unitary, stable, and interacting conformal boundary conditions for a free massless scalar in four dimensions by coupling it to edge modes living on a boundary. The boundary theories we consider are bosonic and fermionic QED$_3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-03 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Edoardo Lauria , Pierluigi Niro

It was recently shown that charged AdS boson stars can reproduce the universal structure of the lowest scaling dimension in the subsector of a CFT with fixed large global $U(1)$ charge $Q$. Using the model consisting of Einstein-Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-23 Shi-Fa Guo , Hai-Shan Liu , H. Lu , Yi Pang

We study the critical properties of scalar field theories in $d+1$ dimensions with $O(N)$ invariant interactions localized on a $d$-dimensional boundary. By a combination of large $N$ and epsilon expansions, we provide evidence for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-29 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani

In this work we present some new results which we have obtained in a study of the phase diagram of charged compact boson stars in the theory involving massive complex scalar fields coupled to the U(1) gauge field and gravity in a conical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 Sanjeev Kumar , Usha Kulshreshtha , Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

We continue the study of model-independent constraints on the unitary Conformal Field Theories in 4-Dimensions, initiated in arXiv:0807.0004. Our main result is an improved upper bound on the dimension \Delta of the leading scalar operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Vyacheslav S. Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

In a conformal field theory with weakly broken higher spin symmetry, the leading order anomalous dimensions of the broken currents can be efficiently determined from the structure of the classical non-conservation equations. We apply this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Simone Giombi , Vladimir Kirilin

We study multipoint correlators of protected scalars on the Maldacena-Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. Working at weak coupling in the planar limit, we derive an explicit recursion relation that captures next-to-leading order correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-24 Julien Barrat , Pedro Liendo , Giulia Peveri , Jan Plefka