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The study of gapless phases with categorical (or so-called non-invertible) symmetries is a formidable task, in particular in higher than two space-time dimensions. In this paper we build on previous works arXiv:2408.05266 and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-27 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Yuhan Gai , Sheng-Jie Huang , Kansei Inamura , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman

In this work we report on a new bootstrap method for quantum mechanical problems that closely mirrors the setup from conformal field theory (CFT). We use the equations of motion to develop an analogue of the conformal block expansion for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Colin Oscar Nancarrow , Yuan Xin

Fusion category symmetries are finite symmetries in 1+1 dimensions described by unitary fusion categories. We classify 1+1d time-reversal invariant bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases with fusion category symmetry by using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-27 Kansei Inamura

We introduce a non-unitary-compatible numerical bootstrap strategy based on the statistical stability of OPE data inferred from crossing at multiple cross-ratios. For a trial spectrum, crossing determines OPE coefficients whose residual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-24 Yu-tin Huang , Shao-Cheng Lee , Henry Liao , Justinas Rumbutis

We use the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) to systematically characterize gapped phases in 2+1 dimensions with categorical symmetries. The SymTFTs that we consider are (3+1)d Dijkgraaf-Witten (DW) theories for finite groups $G$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-10 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman

We introduce topological invariants for gapless systems and study the associated boundary phenomena. More generally, the symmetry properties of the low-energy conformal field theory (CFT) provide discrete invariants, establishing the notion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-06 Ruben Verresen , Ryan Thorngren , Nick G. Jones , Frank Pollmann

Global invertible symmetries act unitarily on local observables or states of a quantum system. In this note, we aim to generalise this statement to non-invertible symmetries by considering unitary actions of higher fusion category…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-16 Thomas Bartsch

Non-invertible categorical symmetries have emerged as a powerful tool to uncover new beyond-Landau phases of matter, both gapped and gapless, along with second order phase transitions between them. The general theory of such phases in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-13 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari

We use the conformal bootstrap to study conformal field theories with $O(N)$ global symmetry in $d=5$ and $d=5.95$ spacetime dimensions that have a scalar operator $\phi_i$ transforming as an $O(N)$ vector. The crossing symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-06 Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

In this paper, we attempt to explore the landscape of two-dimensional conformal field theories (2d CFTs) by efficiently searching for numerical solutions to the modular bootstrap equation using machine-learning-style optimization. The torus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Nathan Benjamin , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Wei Li , Jesse Thaler

We explore the space of extremal functionals in the conformal bootstrap. By recasting the bootstrap problem as a set of non-linear equations parameterized by the CFT data, we find an efficient algorithm for converging to the extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with $U(m)\times U(n)$ global symmetry in $d=3$ dimensions have been studied for years due to their potential relevance to the chiral phase transition of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this work such CFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

We study the conformal bootstrap for 3D CFTs with O(N) global symmetry. We obtain rigorous upper bounds on the scaling dimensions of the first O(N) singlet and symmetric tensor operators appearing in the $\phi_i \times \phi_j$ OPE, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-16 Filip Kos , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

Symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) gives a holographic correspondence between systems with a global symmetry and a higher-dimensional topological field theory. In this framework, classification of gapped phases of matter in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-02 Rui Wen , Andrew C. Potter

Modulated symmetries are internal symmetries that are not invariant under spacetime symmetry actions. We propose a general way to describe the lattice translation modulated symmetries in 1+1D, including the non-invertible ones, via the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Ching-Yu Yao

We discuss the exact non-invertible Kramers-Wannier symmetry of 1+1d lattice models on a tensor product Hilbert space of qubits. This symmetry is associated with a topological defect and a conserved operator, and the latter can be presented…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Nathan Seiberg , Sahand Seifnashri , Shu-Heng Shao

We introduce regular stratified piecewise linear manifolds to describe lattices and investigate the lattice model approach to topological quantum field theory in all dimensions. We introduce the unitary $n+1$ alterfold TQFT and construct it…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Zhengwei Liu

We implement the conformal bootstrap program for three-dimensional CFTs with $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry and find universal constraints on the spectrum of operator dimensions in these theories. By studying the bounds on the dimension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-11 Nikolay Bobev , Sheer El-Showk , Dalimil Mazac , Miguel F. Paulos

We propose a roadmap for bootstrapping conformal field theories (CFTs) described by gauge theories in dimensions $d>2$. In particular, we provide a simple and workable answer to the question of how to detect the gauge group in the bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-29 Yin-Chen He , Junchen Rong , Ning Su

We propose a general framework to characterize gapped infra-red (IR) phases of theories with non-invertible (or categorical) symmetries. In this paper we focus on (1+1)d gapped phases with fusion category symmetries. The approach that we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki