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We study novel conformal twist defects in 4d Maxwell theory, around which electric and magnetic fields are exchanged. These are codimension-2 defects living at the end of topological defects for certain non-invertible global symmetries. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Shu-Heng Shao , Siwei Zhong

Effective field theories (EFTs) provide a powerful framework to parametrise unknown aspects of possible ultraviolet (UV) physics. For scalar fields in de Sitter space, however, new emergent phenomena can arise when the cut-off scale of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Sebastian Cespedes , Zhehan Qin , Dong-Gang Wang

We study conformal field theories (CFTs) on curved spaces including both orientable and unorientable manifolds possibly with boundaries. We first review conformal transformations on curved manifolds. We then compute the identity components…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-24 Ken Kikuchi

Motivated by questions about quantum information and classification of quantum field theories, we consider Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) in spacetime dimension $d\geq 5$ with a conformally-invariant spatial boundary (BCFTs) or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-21 Adam Chalabi , Christopher P. Herzog , Andy O'Bannon , Brandon Robinson , Jacopo Sisti

Trace anomaly for dilaton coupled conformal theories on curved background with non-zero dilaton is found from supergravity side as an IR effect using AdS/CFT correspondence. For $d=2$ it coincides with the conformal anomaly for dilaton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

We demonstrate that the Ising model on a general triangular graph with 3 distinct couplings $K_1,K_2,K_3$ corresponds to an affine transformed conformal field theory (CFT). Full conformal invariance of the $c= 1/2$ minimal CFT is restored…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Richard C. Brower , Evan K. Owen

We consider a recent proposal for a physical realization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the zeroth-Landau-level sector of an irregularly-shaped graphene flake. We study in detail charge transport signatures of the unique non-Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-21 Oguzhan Can , Emilian M. Nica , Marcel Franz

We develop an effective field theory (EFT) for deformed odd-mass nuclei. These are described as an axially symmetric core to which a nucleon is coupled. In the coordinate system fixed to the core the nucleon is subject to an axially…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 T. Papenbrock , H. A. Weidenmüller

I will discuss spontaneous conformal symmetry breaking in the strongly $\gamma$-deformed limit of the $\mathcal N=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory known as~\emph{Fishnet Conformal Field Theory}.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-01 Georgios K. Karananas

Noncommutative field theory (NCFT) is an extension of quantum field theory (QFT) that redefines spacetime, replacing commuting coordinates with a noncommutative structure. This shift fundamentally alters the way fields, interactions, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-14 Badis Ydri

We use the framework of relativistic and non-relativistic conformal field theories (CFT) to derive general results relevant for the production of weakly coupled and strongly coupled dark sectors through thermal interactions. Our result…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Michele Redi , Andrea Tesi

We develop a demonstrator foundation model for collider-scale explorations of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), constructed from contrastive representations of theoretically simulated neutral-current Drell-Yan cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Supratim Das Bakshi , T. J. Hobbs , Brandon Kriesten

Motivated by its potential use in constraining the structure of 6D renormalization group flows, we determine the low energy dilaton-axion effective field theory of conformal and global symmetry breaking in 6D conformal field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-26 Jonathan J. Heckman , Sandipan Kundu , Hao Y. Zhang

This is a sequel to our recent work [1] in which we calculated the lepton number violating (LNV) $K^\pm$ decays due to contact dimension-9 (dim-9) quark-lepton effective interactions that are induced at a high energy scale. In this work we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Hao-Lin Wang

We discuss the structure of 2D conformal field theories (CFT) at central charge c=0 describing critical disordered systems, polymers and percolation. We construct a novel extension of the c=0 Virasoro algebra, characterized by a number b…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Gurarie , A. W. W. Ludwig

A conformal field theory (CFT) is a quantum field theory which is invariant under conformal transformations; a group action that preserve angles but not necessarily lengths. There are two traditional approaches to the construction of CFTs:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-24 Benjamin Horowitz

We investigate the phase diagram of a quantum many-body system constructed via the strange correlator approach, based on the non-Abelian $SU(2)_4$ fusion category, to probe topological phase transitions. Using tensor network methods, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Ce Shen

In 1987 Graeme Segal gave a functorial definition of Conformal Field Theory (CFT) that was designed to capture the mathematical essence of the Conformal Bootstrap formalism pioneered in physics by Belavin-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov. In Segal's…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

Some mathematical questions relating to Coset Conformal Field Theories (CFT) are considered in the framework of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory as developed previously by us. We consider the issue of fixed point resolution in the diagonal…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Xu

We determine the $d+1$ dimensional topological field theory, which encodes the higher-form symmetries and their 't Hooft anomalies for $d$-dimensional QFTs obtained by compactifying M-theory on a non-compact space $X$. The resulting theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Fabio Apruzzi , Federico Bonetti , Iñaki García Etxebarria , Saghar S. Hosseini , Sakura Schafer-Nameki