English
Related papers

Related papers: Boundary Conformal Field Theory at Large Charge

200 papers

Higher dimensional Euclidean Liouville conformal field theories (LCFTs) consist of a log-correlated real scalar field with a background charge and an exponential potential. We analyse the LCFT on a four-dimensional manifold with a boundary.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 Adwait Gaikwad , Amitay C. Kislev , Tom Levy , Yaron Oz

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is simply the study of conformal field theory (CFT) in domains with a boundary. It gains its significance because, in some ways, it is mathematically simpler: the algebraic and geometric structures of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-20 John Cardy

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is the study of conformal field theory (CFT) on manifolds with a boundary. We can use conformal symmetry to constrain correlation functions of conformal invariant fields. We compute two-point and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali

The Large Charge sector of Conformal Field Theory (CFT) can generically be described through a semiclassical expansion around a superfluid background. In this work, focussing on $U(1)$ invariant Wilson-Fisher fixed points, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Gil Badel , Alexander Monin , Riccardo Rattazzi

In this paper, we use crossing symmetry and unitarity constraints to put a lower bound on the central charge of conformal field theories in large space-time dimensions $D$. Specifically, we work with the four-point function of identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Abhijit Gadde , Mrunmay Jagadale , Shraiyance Jain , Trakshu Sharma

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) provides a universal framework for critical phenomena in the presence of boundaries. We determine BCFT data for the normal and ordinary boundary universality classes of the $1+1$-dimensional boundaries…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-24 Jiechao Feng , Taige Wang

We derive general bounds on operator dimensions, central charges, and OPE coefficients in 4D conformal and N=1 superconformal field theories. In any CFT containing a scalar primary phi of dimension d we show that crossing symmetry of <phi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-09 David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

The trace anomaly of conformal field theories in four dimensions is characterized by '$a$' and '$c$'-functions. The scaling properties of the effective action of a CFT in the presence of boundaries is shown to be determined by $a$, $c$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Dmitri Fursaev

Aspects of parity-preserving, three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a global $U(1)$ symmetry in the presence of a background magnetic field are investigated. A local effective action is constructed to four-derivative order,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Christopher P. Herzog , William H. Pannell , Biswajit Sahoo , Andreas Stergiou

We consider correlators for the flux of energy and charge in the background of operators with large global $U(1)$ charge in conformal field theory (CFT). It has recently been shown that the corresponding Euclidean correlators generically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Eren Firat , Alexander Monin , Riccardo Rattazzi , Matthew T. Walters

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is the study of conformal field theory (CFT) in semi-infinite space-time. In non-relativistic limit ($x\rightarrow\epsilon x, t\rightarrow t, \epsilon\rightarrow 0$), boundary conformal algebra changes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali

We study bulk locality in a scalar effective field theory (EFT) in AdS background in presence of an end-of-the-world (EOW) brane. The holographic dual description is given in terms of a boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Pinaki Banerjee , Parijat Dey , Dipyendu Dhar

We use the recently constructed solution for marginal deformations by one of the authors, to analytically relate the BCFT modulus (lambda_BCFT) to the coefficient of the boundary marginal field in the solution (lambda_SFT). We explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-04 Carlo Maccaferri , Martin Schnabl

This thesis aims to explore the structure of CFTs with global internal symmetries and beyond via the Large-Charge Expansion (LCE), a semi-classical expansion applicable for states with large global quantum numbers. In the first part of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-22 Rafael Moser

We study Schr\"odinger invariant field theories (nonrelativistic conformal field theories) in the large charge (particle number) sector. We do so by constructing the effective field theory (EFT) for a Goldstone boson of the associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-12 S. M. Kravec , Sridip Pal

We consider the bulk $\phi^3$ deformation of the free boundary conformal field theory in the $\epsilon$ expansion. We determine the leading corrections to the scaling dimensions of boundary fundamental operators and some boundary operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Yongwei Guo , Wenliang Li

We investigate $O(N)$ boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) with boundary interactions in $d=4-\epsilon$ and $d=3-\epsilon$ employing the analytic bootstrap. By deriving universal constraints on conformal data, we show that infinitely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Xinyu Sun , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

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

The Euclidean Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space provides a natural framework for studying boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We analyze the conformal boundary conditions of the critical O$(N)$ model in $d=4-\epsilon$ dimensions using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Simone Giombi , Zimo Sun

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
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›