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We formulate the three dimensional Thirring model on a spacetime lattice and study it for various even numbers of fermion flavors N_f by Monte Carlo simulation. We find clear evidence for spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking at strong…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Del Debbio , S. J. Hands , J. C. Mehegan

Using lattice simulations, we study the extent of the conformal window for an $\text{SU}(3)$ gauge theory with $N_f$ Dirac fermions in the fundamental representation. We present evidence that the infrared behavior is conformal for $12 \leq…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-15 Thomas Appelquist , George T. Fleming , Ethan T. Neil

We study the conformal bootstrap constraints for 3D conformal field theories with a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ or parity symmetry, assuming a single relevant scalar operator $\epsilon$ that is invariant under the symmetry. When there is additionally a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Alexander Atanasov , Aaron Hillman , David Poland

Non-compact three-dimensional QED is studied by computer simulations to understand its chiral symmetry breaking features for different values of the number of fermion flavors N_f. We consider the four-component formulation for the fermion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Costas Strouthos , John B. Kogut

We investigate the stability of the N\'eel quantum critical point of two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets, described by a non-linear $\sigma$ model (NL$\sigma$M), in the presence of a Kondo coupling to $N_f$ flavours of two-component…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-09 Huanzhi Hu , Jennifer Lin , Mikolaj D. Uryszek , Frank Krüger

We present a direct Monte-Carlo determination of the scaling dimension of a topological defect operator in the infrared fixed point of a three-dimensional interacting quantum field theory. For this, we compute the free energy to introduce…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-10-02 Nikhil Karthik , Rajamani Narayanan

Compact lattice Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) with four species of fermions is simulated with massless quarks by using the $\chi$QED scheme of adding a four-fermi interaction to the action. Simulations directly in the chiral limit of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 John B. Kogut , Costas G. Strouthos

We study four-dimensional conformal field theories with an $SU(N)$ global symmetry by employing the numerical conformal bootstrap. We consider the crossing relation associated with a four-point function of a spin~$0$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Hisashi Iha , Hiroki Makino , Hiroshi Suzuki

We study monopole operators at the infrared fixed points of Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories with N_f fermion flavors in three dimensions. At large N_f, independent monopole operators can be defined via the state-operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-06 Ethan Dyer , Márk Mezei , Silviu S. Pufu

We study 3d CFTs with an $O(N)$ global symmetry using the conformal bootstrap for a system of mixed correlators. Specifically, we consider all nonvanishing scalar four-point functions containing the lowest dimension $O(N)$ vector $\phi_i$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-30 Filip Kos , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

We study two-dimensional (4,4) superconformal field theories of central charge c=6, corresponding to nonlinear sigma models on K3 surfaces, using the superconformal bootstrap. This is made possible through a surprising relation between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-13 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , David Simmons-Duffin , Yifan Wang , Xi Yin

We conduct a theoretical study of SU(N) fermions confined by a one-dimensional harmonic potential. Firstly, we introduce a new numerical approach for solving the trapped interacting few-body problem, by which one may obtain accurate energy…

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U(1) gauge theory of non-relativistic fermions interacting via compact U(1) gauge fields in the presence of a Fermi surface appears as an effective field theory in low dimensional quantum antiferromagnetism and heavy fermion liquids. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Ki-Seok Kim

This paper focuses on the analysis of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal theories in the presence of a defect from the point of view of the conformal bootstrap. We will concentrate first on the case of codimension one, where the defect is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli

In view of its physical importance in predicting the order of chiral phase transitions in QCD and frustrated spin systems, we perform the conformal bootstrap program of $O(n)\times O(2)$-symmetric conformal field theories in $d=3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Yu Nakayama , Tomoki Ohtsuki

Many model quantum spin systems have been proposed to realize critical points or phases described by 2+1 dimensional conformal gauge theories. On a torus of size $L$ and modular parameter $\tau$, the energy levels of such gauge theories…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-31 Alex Thomson , Subir Sachdev

We study scalar conformal field theories whose large $N$ spectrum is fixed by the operator dimensions of either Ising model or Lee-Yang edge singularity. Using numerical bootstrap to study CFTs with $S_N\otimes Z_2$ symmetry, we find a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Junchen Rong , Ning Su

We give evidence for 3d bosonization in Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) by computing monopole operator scaling dimensions in 2+1 dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED3) with Chern-Simons level $k$ and $N$ complex bosons in a large $N,k$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Shai M. Chester , Éric Dupuis , William Witczak-Krempa

Compact quantum electrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions often arises as an effective theory for a Mott insulator, with the Dirac fermions representing the low-energy spinons. An important and controversial issue in this context is whether a…

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