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Conformal field theories (CFTs) are associated with critical phenomena and phase transitions and also play an essential role in string theory. Solving a CFT is an extremely constrained problem due to conformal invariance -- the task…

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This chapter gives a self-contained review of the how standard open quantum system Hamiltonians can be mapped analytically onto representations in which the environments appear as one dimensional harmonic chains with nearest neighbour…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Alex W. Chin , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

We generalize Emery and Kivelson's (EK) bosonization-refermionization treatment of the 2-channel Kondo model to finite system size and on the EK-line analytically construct its exact eigenstates and finite-size spectrum. The latter crosses…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Jan von Delft , Gergely Zarand , Michele Fabrizio

A conformal field theory (CFT) in dimension $d\geq 3$ coupled to a planar, two-dimensional, conformal defect is characterized in part by a "central charge" $b$ that multiplies the Euler density in the defect's Weyl anomaly. For defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon

Bipartite entanglement entropy of a segment with the length $l$ in $1+1$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFT) follows the formula $S=\frac{c}{3}\ln l+\gamma$, where $c$ is the central charge of the CFT and $\gamma$ is a cut-off…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-20 M. A. Rajabpour

The entanglement spectra for a subsystem in a spin chain fine-tuned to a quantum-critical point contains signatures of the underlying quantum field theory that governs its low-energy properties. For an open chain with given boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Ananda Roy , Sergei L. Lukyanov , Hubert Saleur

We study the entanglement Hamiltonian for finite intervals in infinite quantum chains for two different free-particle systems: coupled harmonic oscillators and fermionic hopping models with dimerization. Working in the ground state, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-20 Viktor Eisler , Giuseppe Di Giulio , Erik Tonni , Ingo Peschel

We present a proposal for the realization of entanglement Hamiltonians in one-dimensional critical spin systems with strongly interacting cold atoms. Our approach is based on the notion that the entanglement spectrum of such systems can be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-10 R. E. Barfknecht , T. Mendes-Santos , L. Fallani

The behaviour of correlations across a bipartition is an indispensable tool in diagnosing quantum phases of matter. Here we present a spin chain with position-dependent XX couplings and magnetic fields, that can reproduce arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Lucy Byles , Germán Sierra , Jiannis K. Pachos

Conformal field theories (CFTs) feature prominently in high-energy physics, statistical mechanics, and condensed matter. For example, CFTs govern emergent universal properties of systems tuned to quantum phase transitions, including their…

The rainbow chain is an inhomogenous exactly solvable local spin model that, in its ground state, displays a half-chain entanglement entropy growing linearly with the system size. Although many exact results about the rainbow chain are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-20 Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Jérôme Dubail , Giovanni Ramírez , Pasquale Calabrese , Germán Sierra

In this article, we propose the realization of conformal manifolds, which are smooth manifolds of scale-conformal invariant interacting Hamiltonians in two-dimensional quantum many-body systems. Such phenomena can occur in various…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-23 Saran Vijayan , Fei Zhou

We demonstrate three types of transformations that establish connections between Hermitian and non-Hermitian quantum systems at criticality, which can be described by conformal field theories (CFTs). For the transformation preserving both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-01 Chang-Tse Hsieh , Po-Yao Chang

Entanglement entropy and entanglement spectrum have been widely used to characterize quantum entanglement in extended many-body systems. Given a pure state of the system and a division into regions $A$ and $B$, they can be obtained in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Qi Hu , Adrian Franco-Rubio , Guifre Vidal

The non-perturbative renormalization group equation for the Wilsonian effective potential is given in a certain simple approximation scheme in order to study chiral symmetry breaking phenomena dynamically induced by strong gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken-Ichi Aoki , Keiichi Morikawa , Jun-Ichi Sumi , Haruhiko Terao , Masashi Tomoyose

In this work, we study the time evolution of the entanglement hamiltonian during the process of thermalization in a (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) after a quantum quench from a special class of initial states. In particular,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-05 Xueda Wen , Shinsei Ryu , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

We demonstrate that the fidelity between a pure state trivial insulator and the mixed state density matrix of a Chern insulator under decoherence can be mapped to a variety of two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFT); more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-25 Kaixiang Su , Nayan Myerson-Jain , Cenke Xu

The method of large spin perturbation theory allows to analyse conformal field theories (CFT) by turning the crossing equations into an algebraic problem. We apply this method to a generic CFT with weakly broken higher spin (HS) symmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Luis F. Alday

We study 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a globally conserved U(1) charge, placed in a chemical potential which is periodically modulated along the spatial direction $x$ with zero average: $\mu(x) = V \cos(kx)$. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-29 Paul Chesler , Andrew Lucas , Subir Sachdev

This note presents a purely geometric construction of the so-called twist-field correlation functions in Conformal Field Theory (CFT), derived from conical singularities. This approach provides a purely mathematical interpretation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-03 Benoit Estienne , Jiasheng Lin