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We apply analytic bootstrap techniques to the four-point correlator of fundamental fields in the Wilson-Fisher model. In an $\epsilon$-expansion crossing symmetry fixes the double discontinuity of the correlator in terms of CFT data at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Luis F. Alday , Johan Henriksson , Mark van Loon

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

We revisit the order $\varepsilon$ dilatation operator of the Wilson-Fisher fixed point obtained by Kehrein, Pismak, and Wegner in light of recent results in conformal field theory. Our approach is algebraic and based only on symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Pedro Liendo

In this paper we study the three-point correlation functions of two scalar operators with large conformal dimensions and the R-current or stress-energy tensor at strong coupling with the help of the AdS_4/CFT_3 correspondence. The scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-23 D. Arnaudov

We develop the representation of free spinor fields in the bulk of Lorentzian anti-de Sitter space in terms of smeared operators in the dual conformal field theory. To do this we expand the bulk field in a complete set of normalizable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Valentino F. Foit , Daniel Kabat , Gilad Lifschytz

We consider conformal perturbation theory for $n$-point functions on the sphere in general 2D CFTs to first order in coupling constant. We regulate perturbation integrals using canonical hard disk excisions of size $\epsilon$ around the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-22 Benjamin A. Burrington , Ida G. Zadeh

We propose to describe bulk wave functions of fractional quantum Hall states in terms of correlators of non-unitary b/c-spin systems. These yield a promising conformal field theory analogon of the composite fermion picture of Jain.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Flohr , Klaus Osterloh

We explore the idea that large $N$, non-supersymmetric conformal field theories with a parametrically large gap to higher spin single-trace operators may be obtained as infrared fixed points of relevant double-trace deformations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Simone Giombi , Eric Perlmutter

Certain CFTs with a global $U(1)$ symmetry become superfluids when coupled to a chemical potential. When this happens, a Goldstone effective field theory controls the spectrum and correlators of the lightest large charge operators. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 Gabriel Cuomo , Luca V. Delacretaz , Umang Mehta

We extend and clarify the large-charge expansion of the conformal dimension $\Delta_Q$ of the lowest operator of charge $Q$ in nonrelativistic CFTs using the state-operator correspondence. The latter requires coupling the theory to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-02 Vito Pellizzani

We study the large-charge sector of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) with $SU(N)$ gauge group by constructing a special class of half-BPS heavy operators, termed "canonical operators". Such operators exhibit remarkable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Augustus Brown , Francesco Galvagno , Alba Grassi , Cristoforo Iossa , Congkao Wen

We constrain the spectrum of $\mathcal{N}=(1, 1)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(2, 2)$ superconformal field theories in two-dimensions by requiring the NS-NS sector partition function to be invariant under the $\Gamma_\theta$ congruence subgroup of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Jin-Beom Bae , Sungjay Lee , Jaewon Song

We study the O(4) Wilson-Fisher fixed point in 2+1 dimensions in fixed large-charge sectors identified by products of two spin-j representations $(j_L, j_R)$. Using effective field theory we derive a formula for the conformal dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-08-07 Debasish Banerjee , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert

Conformal field theory (CFT) plays a key role in modern theoretical physics. Through CFT we describe real physical systems at criticality and fixed points of the renormalization group flow. It is also central in the study of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Giulia Peveri

Three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with $N$ charged fermions contains monopole operators that have been studied perturbatively at large $N$. Here, we initiate the study of these monopole operators in the $4-\epsilon$ expansion by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-13 Shai M. Chester , Mark Mezei , Silviu S. Pufu , Itamar Yaakov

Conformal field theories (CFTs) are associated with critical phenomena and phase transitions and also play an essential role in string theory. Solving a CFT is an extremely constrained problem due to conformal invariance -- the task…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-07 Vito Pellizzani

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

Using the large-charge expansion, we prove a necessary condition for a CFT to exhibit conformal symmetry breaking, under the assumption that a continuous global symmetry is ${\it also}$ broken on the moduli space: there must be a tower of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Gabriel Cuomo , Leonardo Rastelli , Adar Sharon

Understanding the link between correlation functions (CFs) of local operators and measurable collider correlators has emerged as a new opportunity in the study of gauge theory dynamics at colliders. While in Conformal Field Theories (CFTs)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Hao Chen , Pier Francesco Monni , Zhaoyan Pang , Gherardo Vita , Hua Xing Zhu

We study $3d$ SCFTs in the superspace formalism and discuss superfields and on-shell higher spin current multiplets in free $3d$ SCFTs with $\mathcal{N}= 1,2,3,4$ and $6$ superconformal symmetry. For $\mathcal{N}=1$ 3d SCFTs we determine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Amin A. Nizami , Tarun Sharma , V. Umesh