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Boundaries not only are fundamental elements in nearly all realistic physical systems, but also greatly enrich the structure of quantum field theories. In this paper, we demonstrate that conformal field theory (CFT) with a boundary, known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Zheng Zhou , Yijian Zou

Conformal field theory (CFT) is the key to various critical phenomena. So far, most of studies focus on the critical exponents of various universalities, corresponding to conformal dimensions of CFT primary fields. However, other important…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-02 Liangdong Hu , Yin-Chen He , W. Zhu

Numerical studies of phase transitions in statistical and quantum lattice models provide crucial insights into the corresponding Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). In higher dimensions, comparing finite-volume numerical results to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-28 Andreas M. Läuchli , Loïc Herviou , Patrick H. Wilhelm , Slava Rychkov

Supersymmetric conformal field theories (SCFTs) form a unique subset of quantum field theories which provide powerful insights into strongly coupled critical phenomena. Here, we present a microscopic and non-perturbative realization of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-01 Yin Tang , Cristian Voinea , Liangdong Hu , Zlatko Papić , W. Zhu

In conformal field theory (CFT), the four-point correlator is a fundamental object that encodes CFT properties, constrains CFT structures, and connects to the gravitational scattering amplitude in holography theory. However, the four-point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-09 Chao Han , Liangdong Hu , W. Zhu , Yin-Chen He

Defects in conformal field theory (CFT) are of significant theoretical and experimental importance. The presence of defects theoretically enriches the structure of the CFT, but at the same time, it makes it more challenging to study,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Liangdong Hu , Yin-Chen He , W. Zhu

Recently introduced ''fuzzy sphere'' method has enabled accurate numerical regularizations of certain three-dimensional (3D) conformal field theories (CFTs). The regularization is provided by the non-commutative geometry of the lowest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-25 Cristian Voinea , Ruihua Fan , Nicolas Regnault , Zlatko Papić

The Potts model describes interacting spins with $Q$ different components, which is a direct generalization of the Ising model ($Q=2$). Compared to the existing exact solutions in 2D, the phase transitions and critical phenomena in the 3D…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-27 Shuai Yang , Yan-Guang Yue , Yin Tang , Chao Han , W. Zhu , Yan Chen

The $F$-function, the three-dimensional counterpart of the central charge in the 2D conformal field theory, measures the effective number of degrees of freedom in 3D quantum field theory, and it is monotonically decreasing under the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-01 Liangdong Hu , W. Zhu , Yin-Chen He

Free theories are landmarks in the landscape of quantum field theories: their exact solvability serves as a pillar for perturbative constructions of interacting theories. Fuzzy sphere regularization, which combines quantum Hall physics with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-01 Joseph Taylor , Cristian Voinea , Zlatko Papić , Ruihua Fan

We consider the transverse field Ising model in $(2+1)$D, putting 12 spins at the vertices of the regular icosahedron. The model is tiny by the exact diagonalization standards, and breaks rotation invariance. Yet we show that it allows a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-20 Bing-Xin Lao , Slava Rychkov

The quest to discover new 3D CFTs has been intriguing for physicists. For this purpose, fuzzy sphere reguarlisation that studies interacting quantum systems defined on the lowest Landau level on a sphere has emerged as a powerful tool. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Zheng Zhou , Yin-Chen He

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 locate the phase-transition line for the Ising model on the fuzzy sphere from a finite-size scaling analysis of its ground-state energy. Our strategy is to write the latter as $E_{GS}(N_m)/N_m = E_{0} + E_1 /N_m + E_{3/2}/N_m^{3/2}+…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Kay Joerg Wiese

We present a model for strongly interacting fermions with internal O(3) symmetry on the fuzzy-sphere that (i) preserves the rotational symmetry of the fuzzy sphere and (ii) undergoes a quantum phase transition in the (2+1)-dimensional O(3)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 Arjun Dey , Loic Herviou , Christopher Mudry , Andreas Martin Läuchli

The fuzzy-sphere regularisation is a powerful tool to study conformal field theories (CFT) in three spacetime dimensions. In this paper, we extend its scope to CFTs with local fermionic operators. We realise the free-Majorana-fermion CFT on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Zheng Zhou , Davide Gaiotto , Yin-Chen He

We introduce a simple model to realize the free real scalar CFT on the fuzzy sphere. The model is structurally similar to the original model that realizes the 3D Ising CFT on the fuzzy sphere. Owing to the shift symmetry of the free scalar,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-19 Yin-Chen He

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with cubic global symmetry in 3D are relevant in a variety of condensed matter systems and have been studied extensively with the use of perturbative methods like the $\varepsilon$ expansion. In an earlier…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-10 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

We extend the recently introduced fuzzy sphere technique for the 3d Ising CFT to the case of boundary CFT (BCFT) using the fuzzy hemisphere. This allows to study conformal boundary conditions, and we investigate the three boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 Mykola Dedushenko

An overview of the mathematical structure of the three-dimensional (3D) Ising model is given, from the viewpoints of topologic, algebraic and geometric aspects. By analyzing the relations among transfer matrices of the 3D Ising model,…

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