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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

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

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

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

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

Defects are common in physical systems with boundaries, impurities or extensive measurements. The interaction between bulk and defect can lead to rich physical phenomena. Defects in gapless phases of matter with conformal symmetry usually…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-30 Zheng Zhou , Davide Gaiotto , Yin-Chen He , Yijian Zou

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

The fuzzy sphere method has enjoyed great success in the study of (2+1)-dimensional unitary conformal field theories (CFTs) by regularizing them as quantum Hall transitions on the sphere. Here, we extend this approach to the Yang-Lee…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-13 Ruihua Fan , Junkai Dong , Ashvin Vishwanath

The $3D$ Ising transition, the most celebrated and unsolved critical phenomenon in nature, has long been conjectured to have emergent conformal symmetry, similar to the case of the $2D$ Ising transition. Yet, the emergence of conformal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-31 Wei Zhu , Chao Han , Emilie Huffman , Johannes S. Hofmann , 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 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

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

The fuzzy-sphere regularization is an emerging numerical and theoretical technique for studying conformal field theories (CFTs). In this paper, we apply it to the $O(N)$ vector model, one of the most prominent theories for critical behavior…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-03 Wenhan Guo , Zheng Zhou , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Yin-Chen He

A challenge in the study of conformal field theory (CFT) is to characterize the possible defects in specific bulk CFTs. Given the success of numerical bootstrap techniques applied to the characterization of bulk CFTs, it is desirable to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-16 Ryan A. Lanzetta , Shang Liu , Max A. Metlitski

We study at zero temperature a microscopic quantum spin-1 model on the fuzzy sphere that realizes the $O(2)$ Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory (CFT) in $(2+1)$-dimensional spacetime at a quantum critical point. Here, we use the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Arjun Dey , Loic Herviou , Christopher Mudry , Slava Rychkov , Andreas Martin Läuchli

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

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

We employ the Fuzzy Sphere regulator to study the 3D Lee-Yang CFT. The model is defined by deforming the Ising model on the Fuzzy Sphere via a purely imaginary longitudinal magnetic field. This model undergoes a quantum phase transition,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-30 Joan Elias Miro , Olivier Delouche

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) provides a universal framework for critical phenomena in the presence of boundaries. We determine BCFT data for the normal and ordinary boundary universality classes of the $1+1$-dimensional boundaries…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-24 Jiechao Feng , Taige Wang

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
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