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We study the problem of how to derive conformal symmetry in the framework of quantum gravity. We start with a generic gravitational theory which is invariant under both the general coordinate transformation (GCT) and Weyl transformation (or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-08 Ichiro Oda

We consider the time evolution of mixed state correlation measures in two-dimensional conformal field theories, such as logarithmic negativity, odd entropy, and reflected entropy, after quantum quenches of various kinds. These correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-20 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Yuya Kusuki , Shinsei Ryu

Conformal field theories have been long known to describe the fascinating universal physics of scale invariant critical points. They describe continuous phase transitions in fluids, magnets, and numerous other materials, while at the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 David Poland , Slava Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

It is demonstrated that, unless the meaning of conformal transformations for the underlying geometrical structure is discussed on a same footing as it is done for the equations of the given gravity theory, the notion of "conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-18 Israel Quiros , Ricardo Garcia-Salcedo , Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar

We introduce a method of reverse holography by which a bulk metric is shown to arise from locally computable multiscale correlations of a boundary quantum field theory (QFT). The metric is obtained from the Petz-R\'enyi mutual information…

An alternative interpretation of the conformal transformations of the metric is discussed according to which the latter can be viewed as a mapping among Riemannian and Weyl-integrable spaces. A novel aspect of the conformal transformation's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-29 Israel Quiros , Ricardo Garcia-Salcedo , Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Tonatiuh Matos

We introduce topological invariants for gapless systems and study the associated boundary phenomena. More generally, the symmetry properties of the low-energy conformal field theory (CFT) provide discrete invariants, establishing the notion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-06 Ruben Verresen , Ryan Thorngren , Nick G. Jones , Frank Pollmann

A recent surge of research in many-body quantum entanglement has uncovered intriguing properties of quantum many-body systems. A prime example is the modular commutator, which can extract a topological invariant from a single wave function.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Sung-Min Park , Isaac H. Kim , Eun-Gook Moon

We compute a momentum space version of the entanglement spectrum and entanglement entropy of general Young tableau states, and one-point functions on Young tableau states. These physical quantities are used to measure the topology of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Hai Lin , Keyou Zeng

Quantum many-body systems have a rich structure in the presence of boundaries. We study the groundstates of conformal field theories (CFTs) and Lifshitz field theories in the presence of a boundary through the lens of the entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 Clément Berthiere , William Witczak-Krempa

Without a complete theory of quantum gravity, the question of how quantum fields and quantum particles behave in a superposition of spacetimes seems beyond the reach of theoretical and experimental investigations. Here we use an extension…

Higher-form symmetries act on sub-dimensional spatial manifolds of a quantum system. They can emerge as an exact symmetry at low energies even when they are explicitly broken at the microscopic level, making them difficult to characterize.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Yu-Jie Liu , Wen-Tao Xu , Frank Pollmann , Michael Knap

We establish the emergence of a conformal field theory (CFT) in a (1+1)-dimensional hybrid quantum circuit right at the measurement-driven entanglement transition by revealing space-time conformal covariance of entanglement entropies and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We study the breakdown of conformal symmetry in a conformally invariant gravitational model. The symmetry breaking is introduced by defining a preferred conformal frame in terms of the large scale characteristics of the universe. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Salehi , H. R. Sepangi , F. Darabi

Einstein's theory of general relativity is written in terms of the variables obtained from a conformal--traceless decomposition of the spatial metric and extrinsic curvature. The determinant of the conformal metric is not restricted, so the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 David Brown

Topological holography is a holographic principle that describes the generalized global symmetry of a local quantum system in terms of a topological order in one higher dimension. This framework separates the topological data from the local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Sheng-Jie Huang , Meng Cheng

A geometric picture of conformally invariant mechanics is presented. Although the standard form of the model is recovered, the careful analysis of global geometry of phase space leads to the conclusion that, in the attractive case, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-18 K. Andrzejewski , J. Gonera

Motivated by the three-dimensional topological field theory / two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) correspondence, we study a broad class of one-dimensional quantum mechanical models, known as anyonic chains, that can give rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Matthew Buican , Andrey Gromov

Paying attention to conformal invariance as the invariance under local transformations of units of measure, we take a conformal invariant quantum field as a quantum matter theory in which one has the freedom to choose the values of units of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-17 Nadereh Namavarian

Topological phases of matter in (2+1) dimensions are commonly equipped with global symmetries, such as electric-magnetic duality in gauge theories and bilayer symmetry in fractional quantum Hall states. Gauging these symmetries into local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-04 Xiao Chen , Abhishek Roy , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Shinsei Ryu