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We pursue the use of deep learning methods to improve state-of-the-art computations in theoretical high-energy physics. Planar N = 4 Super Yang-Mills theory is a close cousin to the theory that describes Higgs boson production at the Large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Tianji Cai , Garrett W. Merz , François Charton , Niklas Nolte , Matthias Wilhelm , Kyle Cranmer , Lance J. Dixon

The soft bootstrap is an on-shell method to constrain the landscape of effective field theories (EFTs) of massless particles via the consistency of the low-energy S-matrix. Given assumptions on the on-shell data (particle spectra, linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Henriette Elvang , Marios Hadjiantonis , Callum R. T. Jones , Shruti Paranjape

The bootstrap is a widely used procedure for statistical inference because of its simplicity and attractive statistical properties. However, the vanilla version of bootstrap is no longer feasible computationally for many modern massive…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-16 Yingying Ma , Chenlei Leng , Hansheng Wang

Accurate contraction of tensor networks beyond one dimension is essential in various fields including quantum many-body physics. Existing approaches typically rely on approximate contraction schemes and do not provide certified error bars.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Seishiro Ono , Yanbai Zhang , Hoi Chun Po

We review the recent developments in the study of conformal field theories in generic space time dimensions using the methods of the conformal bootstrap, in its analytic aspect. These techniques are based solely on symmetries, in particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 Agnese Bissi , Parijat Dey , Giulia Fardelli

This paper explores the numerical conformal bootstrap in general spacetime dimensions through the lens of a distinct category of analytic functionals, previously employed in two-dimensional studies. We extend the application of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-30 Kausik Ghosh , Zechuan Zheng

Recently, an application of the numerical bootstrap method to quantum mechanics was proposed, and it successfully reproduces the eigenstates of various systems. However, it is unclear why this method works. In order to understand this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-20 Yu Aikawa , Takeshi Morita , Kota Yoshimura

I choose the Lee-Yang model and go through different approaches to analyze it using the form factor approach and the bootstrap program, the lattice description and the lattice TBA equations for a full understanding of the model. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-17 Omar El Deeb

We analyze the bootstrap approach (a dual optimization method to the variational approach) to one-dimensional spin chains, leveraging semidefinite programming to extract numerical results. We study how correlation functions in the ground…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-27 David Berenstein , George Hulsey , P. N. Thomas Lloyd

The analytic conformal bootstrap is an array of techniques to characterize, constrain, and solve strongly interacting quantum field theories using symmetries, causality, unitarity, and other general principles. In the last decade, bolstered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Thomas Hartman , Dalimil Mazac , David Simmons-Duffin , Alexander Zhiboedov

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

We introduce a comprehensive framework for analyzing finite $N$ lattice Yang-Mills theory and finite $N$ matrix models. Utilizing this framework, we examine the bootstrap approach to SU(2) Lattice Yang-Mills Theory in 2,3 and 4 dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-05 Vladimir Kazakov , Zechuan Zheng

The scattering equations are a set of algebraic equations connecting the kinematic space of massless particles and the moduli space of Riemann spheres with marked points. We present an efficient method for solving the scattering equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Zhengwen Liu , Xiaoran Zhao

A numerical bootstrap method is proposed to provide rigorous and nontrivial bounds in general quantum many-body systems with locality. In particular, lower bounds on ground state energies of local lattice systems are obtained by imposing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 Xizhi Han

Determining the solvability of a given quantum mechanical system is generally challenging. We discuss that the numerical bootstrap method can help us to solve this question in one-dimensional quantum mechanics. We show that the bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Yu Aikawa , Takeshi Morita

We introduce a novel method to bootstrap crossing equations in Conformal Field Theory and apply it to finite temperature theories on $S^1\times \mathbb{R}^{d-1}$. The proposed approach does not rely on positivity constraints and does not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 V. Niarchos , C. Papageorgakis , A. Stratoudakis , M. Woolley

Integrable Quantum Field Theories can be solved exactly using bootstrap techniques based on their elastic and factorisable S-matrix. While knowledge of the scattering amplitudes reveals the exact spectrum of particles and their on-shell…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-30 M. Lencsés , G. Mussardo , G. Takács

We revisit the large $N$ limit of bosonic $D$-matrix Yang-Mills integrals using two complementary bootstrap methods. In the positivity bootstrap, we obtain bounds for $\langle \text{tr}\, XX \rangle$ and $\langle \text{tr}\, XXXX \rangle$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Wenliang Li , Xinran Su

We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study boundary quantum electrodynamics, the theory of a four dimensional photon in a half space coupled to charged conformal matter on the boundary. This system is believed to be a boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

Recently an efficient numerical method has been developed to implement the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity on the operator dimensions and OPE coefficients of conformal field theories (CFT) in diverse space-time dimensions. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Ferdinando Gliozzi