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The Yang-Lee universality class arises when imaginary magnetic field is tuned to its critical value in the paramagnetic phase of the $d<6$ Ising model. In $d=2$, this non-unitary Conformal Field Theory (CFT) is exactly solvable via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Erick Arguello Cruz , Igor R. Klebanov , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Yuan Xin

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

Recently introduced ''fuzzy sphere'' method has enabled accurate numerical regularizations of certain three-dimensional (3D) conformal field theories (CFTs). The regularization is provided by the non-commutative geometry of the lowest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-25 Cristian Voinea , Ruihua Fan , Nicolas Regnault , Zlatko Papić

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The three-dimensional cubic conformal field theory governs the critical behaviour of Heisenberg magnets with cubic anisotropy. Studying this theory non-perturbatively is challenging, because its most easily accessible observables are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Andreas Stergiou

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) provides a universal framework for critical phenomena in the presence of boundaries. We determine BCFT data for the normal and ordinary boundary universality classes of the $1+1$-dimensional boundaries…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-24 Jiechao Feng , Taige Wang

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

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 explore the space of extremal functionals in the conformal bootstrap. By recasting the bootstrap problem as a set of non-linear equations parameterized by the CFT data, we find an efficient algorithm for converging to the extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

Fuzzy spheres appear as classical solutions in a matrix model obtained via dimensional reduction of 3-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with the Chern-Simons term. Well-defined perturbative expansion around these solutions can be formulated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Takehiro Azuma , Subrata Bal , Keiichi Nagao , Jun Nishimura

We present a new model for Yang-Mills theory on the fuzzy sphere in which the configuration space of gauge fields is given by a coadjoint orbit. In the classical limit it reduces to ordinary Yang-Mills theory on the sphere. We find all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Harold Steinacker , Richard J. Szabo

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…

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