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Free theories are landmarks in the landscape of quantum field theories: their exact solvability serves as a pillar for perturbative constructions of interacting theories. Fuzzy sphere regularization, which combines quantum Hall physics with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-01 Joseph Taylor , Cristian Voinea , Zlatko Papić , Ruihua Fan

Defects in conformal field theory (CFT) are of significant theoretical and experimental importance. The presence of defects theoretically enriches the structure of the CFT, but at the same time, it makes it more challenging to study,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Liangdong Hu , Yin-Chen He , W. Zhu

Boundaries not only are fundamental elements in nearly all realistic physical systems, but also greatly enrich the structure of quantum field theories. In this paper, we demonstrate that conformal field theory (CFT) with a boundary, known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Zheng Zhou , Yijian Zou

Numerical studies of phase transitions in statistical and quantum lattice models provide crucial insights into the corresponding Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). In higher dimensions, comparing finite-volume numerical results to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-28 Andreas M. Läuchli , Loïc Herviou , Patrick H. Wilhelm , Slava Rychkov

We introduce a simple model to realize the free real scalar CFT on the fuzzy sphere. The model is structurally similar to the original model that realizes the 3D Ising CFT on the fuzzy sphere. Owing to the shift symmetry of the free scalar,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-19 Yin-Chen He

In conformal field theory (CFT), the four-point correlator is a fundamental object that encodes CFT properties, constrains CFT structures, and connects to the gravitational scattering amplitude in holography theory. However, the four-point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-09 Chao Han , Liangdong Hu , W. Zhu , Yin-Chen He

The fuzzy sphere method has enjoyed great success in the study of (2+1)-dimensional unitary conformal field theories (CFTs) by regularizing them as quantum Hall transitions on the sphere. Here, we extend this approach to the Yang-Lee…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-13 Ruihua Fan , Junkai Dong , Ashvin Vishwanath

Supersymmetric conformal field theories (SCFTs) form a unique subset of quantum field theories which provide powerful insights into strongly coupled critical phenomena. Here, we present a microscopic and non-perturbative realization of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-01 Yin Tang , Cristian Voinea , Liangdong Hu , Zlatko Papić , W. Zhu

The $F$-function, the three-dimensional counterpart of the central charge in the 2D conformal field theory, measures the effective number of degrees of freedom in 3D quantum field theory, and it is monotonically decreasing under the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-01 Liangdong Hu , W. Zhu , Yin-Chen He

The fuzzy-sphere regularisation is a powerful tool to study conformal field theories (CFT) in three spacetime dimensions. In this paper, we extend its scope to CFTs with local fermionic operators. We realise the free-Majorana-fermion CFT on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Zheng Zhou , Davide Gaiotto , Yin-Chen He

The lowest Landau level on the sphere was recently proposed as a continuum regularization of the three-dimensional conformal field theories, the so-called fuzzy sphere regularization. In this note, we propose an explicit construction of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-13 Ruihua Fan

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

The $3D$ Ising transition, the most celebrated and unsolved critical phenomenon in nature, has long been conjectured to have emergent conformal symmetry, similar to the case of the $2D$ Ising transition. Yet, the emergence of conformal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-31 Wei Zhu , Chao Han , Emilie Huffman , Johannes S. Hofmann , Yin-Chen He

The quest to discover new 3D CFTs has been intriguing for physicists. For this purpose, fuzzy sphere reguarlisation that studies interacting quantum systems defined on the lowest Landau level on a sphere has emerged as a powerful tool. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Zheng Zhou , Yin-Chen He

We employ the Fuzzy Sphere regulator to study the 3D Lee-Yang CFT. The model is defined by deforming the Ising model on the Fuzzy Sphere via a purely imaginary longitudinal magnetic field. This model undergoes a quantum phase transition,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-30 Joan Elias Miro , Olivier Delouche

Fuzzy sphere models conjecturally realize 3d CFTs in small systems of spinful fermions, but why they work so well is still not fully understood. Their Hamiltonians are built from electron density operators projected to the lowest Landau…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-06 Luisa Eck , Zhenghan Wang

The fuzzy-sphere regularization is an emerging numerical and theoretical technique for studying conformal field theories (CFTs). In this paper, we apply it to the $O(N)$ vector model, one of the most prominent theories for critical behavior…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-03 Wenhan Guo , Zheng Zhou , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Yin-Chen He

We extend the recently introduced fuzzy sphere technique for the 3d Ising CFT to the case of boundary CFT (BCFT) using the fuzzy hemisphere. This allows to study conformal boundary conditions, and we investigate the three boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 Mykola Dedushenko

We study at zero temperature a microscopic quantum spin-1 model on the fuzzy sphere that realizes the $O(2)$ Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory (CFT) in $(2+1)$-dimensional spacetime at a quantum critical point. Here, we use the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Arjun Dey , Loic Herviou , Christopher Mudry , Slava Rychkov , Andreas Martin Läuchli

We present a model for strongly interacting fermions with internal O(3) symmetry on the fuzzy-sphere that (i) preserves the rotational symmetry of the fuzzy sphere and (ii) undergoes a quantum phase transition in the (2+1)-dimensional O(3)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 Arjun Dey , Loic Herviou , Christopher Mudry , Andreas Martin Läuchli
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