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We study the momentum-space 4-point correlation function of identical scalar operators in conformal field theory. Working specifically with null momenta, we show that its imaginary part admits an expansion in conformal blocks. The blocks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-29 Marc Gillioz

We consider Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) thought experiments in unitary Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). We explore the implications of the standard dispersion relations for the OPE data. We derive positivity constraints on the OPE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-22 Zohar Komargodski , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev , Alexander Zhiboedov

Operator product expansions (OPEs) in quantum field theory (QFT) provide an asymptotic relation between products of local fields defined at points $x_1, \dots, x_n$ and local fields at point $y$ in the limit $x_1, \dots, x_n \to y$. They…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-05 Stefan Hollands , Robert M. Wald

General principles of quantum field theory imply that there exists an operator product expansion (OPE) for Wightman functions in Minkowski momentum space that converges for arbitrary kinematics. This convergence is guaranteed to hold in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-01 Marc Gillioz , Xiaochuan Lu , Markus A. Luty , Guram Mikaberidze

We study generalized free fields (GFF) from the point of view of information measures. We first review conformal GFF, their holographic representation, and the ambiguities in the assignation of algebras to regions that arise in these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Valentin Benedetti , Horacio Casini , Pedro J. Martinez

We consider the operator product expansion (OPE) structure of scalar primary operators in a generic Lorentzian CFT and its dual description in a gravitational theory with one extra dimension. The OPE can be decomposed into certain bi-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Heng-Yu Chen , Lung-Chuan Chen , Nozomu Kobayashi , Tatsuma Nishioka

We reconsider the computation of the entanglement entropy of two disjoint intervals in a (1+1) dimensional conformal field theory by conformal block expansion of the 4-point correlation function of twist fields. We show that accurate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-26 Paola Ruggiero , Erik Tonni , Pasquale Calabrese

We describe in detail the method used in our previous work arXiv:1611.10344 to study the Wilson-Fisher critical points nearby generalized free CFTs, exploiting the analytic structure of conformal blocks as functions of the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Ferdinando Gliozzi , Andrea L. Guerrieri , Anastasios C. Petkou , Congkao Wen

Conformal field theory (CFT) is the key to various critical phenomena. So far, most of studies focus on the critical exponents of various universalities, corresponding to conformal dimensions of CFT primary fields. However, other important…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-02 Liangdong Hu , Yin-Chen He , W. Zhu

It's well known that in conformal theories the two- and three-point functions of a subset of the local operators-the conformal primaries-suffice, via the operator product expansion (OPE), to determine all local correlation functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-01 Jean-François Fortin , Kenneth Intriligator , Andreas Stergiou

The mutual information, $I_2$, of general spacetime regions is expected to capture the full data of any conformal field theory (CFT). For spherical regions, this data can be accessed from long-distance expansions of the mutual information…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-09 César A. Agón , Pablo Bueno , Guido van der Velde

We study the behaviour of the conformal block expansions of scalar fivepoint Lorentzian conformal correlators in the limit where multiple cross ratios approach zero. Since this limit is controlled by intermediate operators with large spin,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Pulkit Agarwal

Given a critical quantum spin chain described by a conformal field theory (CFT) at long distances, it is crucial to understand the universal conformal data. One most important ingredient is the operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-26 Yuhan Liu , Yijian Zou , Shinsei Ryu

We consider a conformal field theory in the presence of a boundary, and explain how two-point correlators of mixed bulk-local operators can be bootstrapped by exploiting the analytical structure of the conformal blocks. This yields the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Alexander Söderberg Rousu

We investigate the short interval expansion of the R\'enyi entropy for two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) on a torus. We require the length of the interval $\ell$ to be small with respect to the spatial and temporal sizes of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-31 Bin Chen , Jun-Bao Wu , Jia-ju Zhang

The Operator Product Expansion is a useful tool to represent correlation functions. In this note we extend Conformal Regge theory to provide an exact OPE representation of Lorenzian four-point correlators in conformal field theory, valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Simon Caron-Huot , Joshua Sandor

Many two-dimensional conformal field theories have an alternative integrable scattering description, which reproduces their spectrum of conformal weights. Taking as an example the case of the Lee-Yang nonunitary CFT and the 3-state Potts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Zoltan Bajnok , Romuald A. Janik

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

We explore the connection between the operator product expansion (OPE) in the boundary and worldsheet conformal field theories in the context of AdS$_{d+1}$/CFT$_d$ correspondence. Considering single trace scalar operators in the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Sudip Ghosh , Sourav Sarkar , Mritunjay Verma

R\'enyi entanglement entropy provides a new window to study the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this paper we consider the short interval expansion of R\'enyi entanglement entropy in two-dimensional conformal field theory. This amounts to do the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-19 Bin Chen , Jia-ju Zhang