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We study multiscalar theories with $\text{O}(N) \times \text{O}(2)$ symmetry. These models have a stable fixed point in $d$ dimensions if $N$ is greater than some critical value $N_c(d)$. Previous estimates of this critical value from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-19 Marten Reehorst , Slava Rychkov , Benoit Sirois , Balt C. van Rees

We construct a class of solvable models for 2+1D quantum critical points by attaching 1+1D conformal field theories (CFTs) to fluctuating domain walls forming a ``loop soup''. Specifically, our local Hamiltonian attaches gapless spin chains…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-07 Amin Moharramipour , Dan Sehayek , Thomas Scaffidi

We investigate realizations of (1+1)-dimensional fusion category symmetries on tensor-product Hilbert spaces, allowing for mixing with quantum cellular automata (QCAs). It was argued recently that any such realizable symmetry must be weakly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Rui Wen , Kansei Inamura , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

In recent work we computed the path integral of three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant on spaces which are topologically a torus times an interval. Here we employ a modular bootstrap to show that the amplitude is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen

We investigate symmetry topological field theories (SymTFTs) of non-abelian and non-invertible symmetries and the different Lagrangian algebras associated with a given Drinfeld center. For several examples we analyze the condensable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel Robbins , Subham Roy

The $(D+1)$-dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT$_{D+1}$) of a $D$-dimensional absolute quantum field theory (QFT$_D$) provides a topological characterization of symmetry data. In this framework, the SymTFT comes equipped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Oren Bergman , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Daniele Migliorati , Xingyang Yu , Hao Y. Zhang

We derive a refined version of the Affleck-Ludwig-Cardy formula for a 1+1d conformal field theory, which controls the asymptotic density of high energy states on an interval transforming under a given representation of a noninvertible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Yichul Choi , Brandon C. Rayhaun , Yunqin Zheng

Symmetries play a central role in quantum many-body physics, yet uncovering them systematically remains challenging. We introduce a bootstrap framework designed to reconstruct the representation theory of hidden finite group symmetries of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Chen Bai , Zihan Zhou , Bastien Lapierre , Shinsei Ryu

The recent development of bootstrap methods based on semidefinite relaxations of positivity constraints has enabled rigorous two-sided bounds on local observables directly in the thermodynamic limit. However, these bounds inevitably become…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Michael G. Scheer , Nisarg Chadha , Da-Chuan Lu , Eslam Khalaf

Non-invertible symmetries in quantum field theory (QFT) generalize the familiar product rule of groups to a more general fusion rule. In many cases, gauged versions of these symmetries can be regarded as dual descriptions of invertible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-02 Jonathan J. Heckman , Jacob McNamara , Miguel Montero , Adar Sharon , Cumrun Vafa , Irene Valenzuela

We discuss a variety of codimension-one, non-invertible topological defects in general 3+1d QFTs with a discrete one-form global symmetry. These include condensation defects from higher gauging of the one-form symmetries on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Yichul Choi , Clay Cordova , Po-Shen Hsin , Ho Tat Lam , Shu-Heng Shao

A recent development in our understanding of the theory of quantum fields is the fact that familiar gauge theories in spacetime dimensions greater than two can have non-invertible symmetries generated by topological defects. The hallmark of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 Christian Copetti , Michele Del Zotto , Kantaro Ohmori , Yifan Wang

We study constraints coming from the modular invariance of the partition function of two-dimensional conformal field theories. We constrain the spectrum of CFTs in the presence of holomorphic and anti-holomorphic currents using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-05 Jin-Beom Bae , Sungjay Lee , Jaewon Song

We propose a Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) for continuous spacetime symmetries. For a $d$-dimensional theory, it is given by a $(d+1)$-dimensional BF-theory for the spacetime symmetry group, and whenever $d$ is even, it can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Fabio Apruzzi , Nicola Dondi , Iñaki García Etxebarria , Ho Tat Lam , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We consider Abelian topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) in 3d and show that gaugings of invertible global symmetries naturally give rise to additive codes. These codes emerge as nonanomalous subgroups of the 1-form symmetry group,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-23 Ahmed Barbar , Anatoly Dymarsky , Alfred D. Shapere

Recent studies by Copetti, C\'ordova and Komatsu have revealed that when non-invertible symmetries are spontaneously broken, the conventional crossing relation of the S-matrix is modified by the effects of the corresponding topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-14 Soichiro Shimamori , Satoshi Yamaguchi

We sketch a procedure to capture general non-invertible symmetries of a d-dimensional quantum field theory in the data of a higher-category, which captures the local properties of topological defects associated to the symmetries. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Lea E. Bottini , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari

There are three generalizations of the Platonic solids that exist in all dimensions, namely the hypertetrahedron, the hypercube, and the hyperoctahedron, with the latter two being dual. Conformal field theories with the associated symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Andreas Stergiou

We introduce analytic functionals which act on the crossing equation for CFTs in arbitrary spacetime dimension. The functionals fully probe the constraints of crossing symmetry on the first sheet, and are in particular sensitive to the OPE,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Miguel F. Paulos

We explore some consequences of the crossing symmetry for defect conformal field theories, focusing on codimension one defects like flat boundaries or interfaces. We study surface transitions of the 3d Ising and other O(N) models through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 F. Gliozzi , P. Liendo , M. Meineri , A. Rago