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As a first step to meet the challenge to calculate the electronic structure and total energy of charged states of atoms and molecules adsorbed on ultrathin-insulating films supported by a metallic substrate using density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-01 Iván Scivetti , Mats Persson

We investigate the principles of quantum field theory using a stiff de Sitter space. We demonstrate that a non-unitary Lagrangian on a Euclidean AdS geometry can produce the perturbative expansion of late-time correlation functions to all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 Sayantan Choudhury

We study the defect CFT associated with the half-BPS Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. Using a perturbative bootstrap approach, we derive new analytical results for multipoint correlators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Daniele Artico , Julien Barrat , Giulia Peveri

In this thesis, we consider two approaches to the study of correlation functions in one-dimensional defect Conformal Field Theories (dCFT$_1$), in particular those defined by 1/2-BPS Wilson line defects in the three- and four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-30 Gabriel J. S. Bliard

We initiate the analytical functional bootstrap study of conformal field theories with large $N$ limits. In this first paper we particularly focus on the 1D $O(N)$ vector bootstrap. We obtain a remarkably simple bootstrap equation from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Zhijin Li

We study the statistical Ising model of spins on the infinite lattice using a bootstrap method that combines spin-flip identities with positivity conditions, including reflection positivity and Griffiths inequalities, to derive rigorous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-04 Minjae Cho , Barak Gabai , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Victor A. Rodriguez , Joshua Sandor , Xi Yin

We review a recent development in theoretical understanding of the quenched averaged correlation functions of disordered systems and the logarithmic conformal field theory (LCFT) in d-dimensions. The logarithmic conformal field theory is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

We use the conformal bootstrap to perform a precision study of the operator spectrum of the critical 3d Ising model. We conjecture that the 3d Ising spectrum minimizes the central charge c in the space of unitary solutions to crossing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-04 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos , David Poland , Slava Rychkov , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

We study topological defect lines in two-dimensional rational conformal field theory. Continuous variation of the location of such a defect does not change the value of a correlator. Defects separating different phases of local CFTs with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jürg Fröhlich , Jürgen Fuchs , Ingo Runkel , Christoph Schweigert

A conformal field theory (CFT) in dimension $d\geq 3$ coupled to a planar, two-dimensional, conformal defect is characterized in part by a "central charge" $b$ that multiplies the Euler density in the defect's Weyl anomaly. For defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon

We consider the conformal bootstrap for spacetime dimension $1<d<2$. We determine bounds on operator dimensions and compare our results with various theoretical and numerical models, in particular with resummed $\epsilon$-expansion and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-08 John Golden , Miguel F. Paulos

In this work we initiate a positive semi-definite numerical bootstrap program for multi-point correlators. Considering six-point functions of operators on a line we reformulate the crossing symmetry equation for a pair of comb-channel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-19 António Antunes , Sebastian Harris , Apratim Kaviraj , Volker Schomerus

We explain how the 't Hooft expansion of correlators of half-BPS operators can be resummed in a large-charge limit in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. The full correlator in the limit is given by a non-trivial function of two variables: One…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Till Bargheer , Frank Coronado , Pedro Vieira

Warped conformal field theory (WCFT) is a two dimensional quantum field theory whose local symmetry algebra consists of a Virasoro algebra and a U(1) Kac-Moody algebra. In this paper, we study correlation functions for primary operators in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-11 Wei Song , Jianfei Xu

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 this paper we deploy for the first time Reinforcement-Learning algorithms in the context of the conformal-bootstrap programme to obtain numerical solutions of conformal field theories (CFTs). As an illustration, we use a soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Gergely Kántor , Vasilis Niarchos , Constantinos Papageorgakis

We propose a general method for the numerical evaluation of OPE coefficients in three dimensional Conformal Field Theories based on the study of the conformal perturbation of two point functions in the vicinity of the critical point. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-25 M. Caselle , G. Costagliola , N. Magnoli

We consider the D1-D5 CFT near the orbifold point, specifically the computation of correlators involving twist sector fields using covering surface techniques. As is well known, certain twists introduce spin fields on the cover. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-13 Benjamin A. Burrington , Amanda W. Peet , Ida G. Zadeh

Recently, boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) have attracted much attention in the context of quantum gravity. This is because a BCFT can be dual to gravity coupled to a heat bath CFT, known as the island model. On this background, it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Yuya Kusuki

The fractal dimensions of polymer chains and high-temperature graphs in the Ising model both in three dimension are determined using the conformal bootstrap applied for the continuation of the $O(N)$ models from $N=1$ (Ising model) to $N=0$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 Hirohiko Shimada , Shinobu Hikami