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The vacuum mutual information (MI) of subregion algebras provides a universal window into the data of general conformal field theories (CFTs). Exploiting the geometric nature of the modular flow associated to ball-shaped regions and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 César A. Agón , Pablo Bueno , Adem Deniz Piskin , Guido van der Velde

In this work, we study the universal behaviors in the mutual information of two disjoint spheres in a conformal field theory(CFT). By using the operator product expansion of the spherical twist operator in terms of the conformal family, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Bin Chen , Lin Chen , Peng-xiang Hao , Jiang Long

We compute the R\'enyi mutual information of two disjoint spheres in free massless scalar theory in even dimensions higher than two. The spherical twist operator in a conformal field theory can be expanded into the sum of local primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-16 Bin Chen , Jiang Long

Using some techniques of conformal field theories, we find a closed expression for the contribution of leading twist operators and their descendants, obtained by adding total derivatives, to the operator product expansion (OPE) of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-09 V. M. Braun , Yao Ji , A. N. Manashov

The existence of an exactly marginal deformation in a conformal field theory is very special, but it is not well understood how this is reflected in the allowed dimensions and OPE coefficients of local operators. To shed light on this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Connor Behan

We propose a new approach towards analytically solving for the dynamical content of Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) using the bootstrap philosophy. This combines the original bootstrap idea of Polyakov with the modern technology of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 Rajesh Gopakumar , Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

The fusion rules and operator product expansion (OPE) serve as crucial tools in the study of operator algebras within conformal field theory (CFT). Building upon the vision of using entanglement to explore the connections between fusion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-02 Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang , Long Zhao , Zi-Xuan Zhao

The study of R\'enyi mutual information (RMI) sheds light on the AdS/CFT correspondence beyond classical order. In this article, we study the R\'enyi mutual information between two intervals at large distance in two-dimensional holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Bin Chen , Peng-Xiang Hao , Wei Song

We study twist operators in higher dimensional CFT's. In particular, we express their conformal dimension in terms of the energy density for the CFT in a particular thermal ensemble. We construct an expansion of the conformal dimension in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Ling-Yan Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

We explore the OPE of certain twist operators in symmetric product ($S_N$) orbifold CFTs, extending our previous work arXiv:1804.01562 to the case of $\mathcal{N}=(4,4)$ supersymmetry. We consider a class of twist operators related to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Thomas de Beer , Benjamin A. Burrington , Ian T. Jardine , A. W. Peet

We address several aspects of entanglement entropy of 2D interface CFT using the replica method. Unlike the case of boundary CFT, we consider the boundary OPE (BOPE) of the R\'enyi twist operator and find a boundary twist operator anchored…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Mianqi Wang

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) for scalar conformal defects of any codimension in CFT. The OPE for defects is decomposed into "defect OPE blocks", the irreducible representations of the conformal group, each of which packages…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Masayuki Fukuda , Nozomu Kobayashi , Tatsuma Nishioka

We investigate the behaviour of the mutual information $\mathcal{I}_{AB}$ between two "small" and wide separated spherical regions $A$ and $B$ in the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM gauge theory dual to Type IIB string theory in $AdS_5 \times S^5$. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-06 Javier Molina-Vilaplana

We investigate the short-interval expansion of the subsystem fidelity in two-dimensional conformal field theories (2D CFTs) using the operator product expansion (OPE) of twist operators. We obtain universal contributions from general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Bin Sui , Yihao Wang , Jiaju Zhang

We prove that in any unitary CFT, a twist gap in the spectrum of operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalar primary operators (i.e. $\phi\times \phi$) implies the existence of a family of primary operators $\mathcal{O}_{\tau,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Sridip Pal , Jiaxin Qiao , Slava Rychkov

Carrollian conformal field theory offers an alternative description of massless scattering amplitudes, that is holographic in nature. In an effort to build a framework that is both predictive and constraining, we construct operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 Kevin Nguyen , Jakob Salzer

Motivated by applications to the study of ultracold atomic gases near the unitarity limit, we investigate the structure of the operator product expansion (OPE) in non-relativistic conformal field theories (NRCFTs). The main tool used in our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Walter D. Goldberger , Zuhair U. Khandker , Siddharth Prabhu

Mutual information serves as an important measure of correlation between subsystem components. In the framework of quantum field theories (QFTs) they have better regulated UV behavior than entanglement entropy, and thus provide more direct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-21 Liangyu Chen , Huajia Wang

We generalize Regge theory to correlation functions in conformal field theories. This is done by exploring the analogy between Mellin amplitudes in AdS/CFT and S-matrix elements. In the process, we develop the conformal partial wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-24 Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Joao Penedones

The operator product expansion (OPE) in 4d (super)conformal field theory is of broad interest, for both formal and phenomenological applications. In this paper, we use conformal perturbation theory to study the OPE of nearly-free fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel Green , David Shih
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