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We analyze deformations of two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) from the perspective of classical bosonic closed string field theory (SFT). The latter can be viewed as a version of Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) improved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-21 Ben Mazel , Joshua Sandor , Charles Wang , Xi Yin

We propose a new tensor network renormalization group (TNR) scheme based on global optimization and introduce a new method for constructing the finite-temperature density matrix of two-dimensional quantum systems. Combining these two into a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-13 Atsushi Ueda , Sander De Meyer , Adwait Naravane , Victor Vanthilt , Frank Verstraete

Based on the relationship between reduced and thermal density matrices in conformal field theory (CFT), we show that the entanglement spectrum of a conformal critical chain with exponentially decaying terms consists of conformal towers of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-09 Attila Szabó

We study the contact terms that appear in the correlation functions of exactly marginal operators using the AdS/CFT correspondence. It is known that CFT with an exactly marginal deformation requires the existence of the contact terms with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-14 Tadakatsu Sakai , Masashi Zenkai

In this work we use cMERA, a continuous tensor network, to find a Gaussian approximation to the ground state of a $T\bar{T}$-deformed scalar CFT on the line, to first order in the deformation parameter. The result is used to find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-18 Biel Cardona , Javier Molina-Vilaplana

We compute exactly various 4-point correlation functions of shortest scalar operators in bi-scalar planar four-dimensional "fishnet" CFT. We apply the OPE to extract from these functions the exact expressions for the scaling dimensions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Nikolay Gromov , Vladimir Kazakov , Gregory Korchemsky

We discuss the renormalisation of mixed 3-point functions involving tensorial and scalar operators in conformal field theories of general dimension. In previous work we analysed correlators of either purely scalar or purely tensorial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-12 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

As an extended companion paper to [1], we elaborate in detail how the tensor network construction of a p-adic CFT encodes geometric information of a dual geometry even as we deform the CFT away from the fixed point by finding a way to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Lin Chen , Xirong Liu , Ling-Yan Hung

We examine the precise connection between the exact renormalisation group with local couplings and the renormalisation of correlation functions of composite operators in scale-invariant theories. A geometric description of theory space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-08 J. M. Lizana , M. Perez-Victoria

The fully-connected tensor network (FCTN) decomposition has gained prominence in the field of tensor completion owing to its powerful capacity to capture the low-rank characteristics of tensors. Nevertheless, the recovery of local details…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Wenchao Xie , Qingsong Wang , Chengcheng Yan , Zheng Peng

The renormalization of composite operators is a fundamental aspect of quantum field theory, relevant for the description of phase transitions and high energy phenomenology. We calculate the anomalous dimensions of a large set of operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Johan Henriksson , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Jasper Roosmale Nepveu

We study the use of transformers to reconstruct the compositions of tensor products of two-dimensional rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) based on their low-energy spectra. The task is challenging due to its combinatorial nature. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Haotian Cao , Garrett Merz , Kyle Cranmer , Gary Shiu

Understanding entanglement remains one of the most intriguing problems in physics. While particle and site entanglement have been studied extensively, the investigation of length or energy scale entanglement, quantifying the information…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-19 Stefan Rohshap , Jheng-Wei Li , Alena Lorenz , Serap Hasil , Karsten Held , Anna Kauch , Markus Wallerberger

We study one and two point functions of conformal field theories on spaces of maximal symmetry with and without boundaries and investigate their spectral representations. Integral transforms are found, relating the spectral decomposition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Kurt Hinterbichler , James Stokes , Mark Trodden

The standard nonperturbative approaches of renormalization group for tensor models are generally focused on a purely local potential approximation (i.e. involving only generalized traces and product of them) and are showed to strongly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-21 Vincent Lahoche , Dine Ousmane Samary

We develop the tensor renormalization group (TRG) algorithm for statistical systems with open boundaries, which allows us to investigate not only the bulk but also the boundary property, such as the surface magnetization. We demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-02 Shumpei Iino , Satoshi Morita , Naoki Kawashima

We study two novel approaches to efficiently encoding universal constraints imposed by conformal symmetry, and describe applications to quantum chaos in higher dimensional CFTs. The first approach consists of a reformulation of the shadow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-13 Felix M. Haehl , Wyatt Reeves , Moshe Rozali

In recent years, tensor network renormalization (TNR) has emerged as an efficient and accurate method for studying (1+1)D quantum systems or 2D classical systems using real-space renormalization group (RG) techniques. One notable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-01 Ying-Jie Wei , Zheng-Cheng Gu

We derive a covariant expression for the renormalized holographic entanglement entropy for Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) dual to Quadratic Curvature Gravity in arbitrary dimensions. This expression is written as the sum of the bare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Javier Moreno , Rodrigo Olea , David Rivera-Betancour

The $J\bar T$ deformation, built from the components of the stress tensor and of a $U(1)$ current, is a universal irrelevant deformation of two-dimensional CFTs that preserves the left-moving conformal symmetry, while breaking locality on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Monica Guica