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Three-dimensional theories with cubic symmetry are studied using the machinery of the numerical conformal bootstrap. Crossing symmetry and unitarity are imposed on a set of mixed correlators, and various aspects of the parameter space are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

Following the initial proposal in 1988, there has been much progress in classifying Rational Conformal Field Theories in 2 dimensions from the Holomorphic Bootstrap approach. This method starts by postulating a generic holomorphic Modular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-09 Sunil Mukhi

We present new numerical results on the space of local, unitary, parity-preserving conformal field theories (CFTs) in three dimensions from the stress tensor bootstrap. In bounds maximizing certain OPE coefficients, we find a plethora of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Rajeev S. Erramilli , Matthew S. Mitchell

We develop the technology for Polyakov-Mellin (PM) bootstrap in one-dimensional conformal field theories (CFT$_1$). By adding appropriate contact terms, we bootstrap various effective field theories in AdS$_2$ and analytically compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Pietro Ferrero , Kausik Ghosh , Aninda Sinha , Ahmadullah Zahed

Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories (LCFT) play a key role, for instance, in the description of critical geometrical problems (percolation, self avoiding walks, etc.), or of critical points in several classes of disordered systems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-22 A. M. Gainutdinov , J. L. Jacobsen , N. Read , H. Saleur , R. Vasseur

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with $U(m)\times U(n)$ global symmetry in $d=3$ dimensions have been studied for years due to their potential relevance to the chiral phase transition of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this work such CFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

In view of its physical importance in predicting the order of chiral phase transitions in QCD and frustrated spin systems, we perform the conformal bootstrap program of $O(n)\times O(2)$-symmetric conformal field theories in $d=3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Yu Nakayama , Tomoki Ohtsuki

The concept of conformal field theory provides a general classification of statistical systems on two-dimensional geometries at the point of a continuous phase transition. Considering the finite-size scaling of certain special observables,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-27 M. Weigel , W. Janke

The single-correlator conformal bootstrap is solved numerically for several values of dimension 4>d>2 using the available SDPB and Extremal Functional methods. Critical exponents and other conformal data of low-lying states are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Andrea Cappelli , Lorenzo Maffi , Satoshi Okuda

Defect conformal field theories (dCFTs) have been attracting increased attention recently, mainly because they enable us to bridge the gap between idealistic, highly symmetric models of our world (such as the particle/string duality) and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-20 Georgios Linardopoulos

In this paper we deploy for the first time Reinforcement-Learning algorithms in the context of the conformal-bootstrap programme to obtain numerical solutions of conformal field theories (CFTs). As an illustration, we use a soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Gergely Kántor , Vasilis Niarchos , Constantinos Papageorgakis

We study three prominent diagnostics of chaos and scrambling in the context of two-dimensional conformal field theory: the spectral form factor, out-of-time-ordered correlators, and unitary operator entanglement. With the observation that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-19 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Laimei Nie , Shinsei Ryu

The rigidity transition occurs when, as the density of microscopic components is increased, a disordered medium becomes able to transmit and ensure macroscopic mechanical stability, owing to the appearance of a space-spanning rigid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-12 Nina Javerzat , Mehdi Bouzid

Modular invariance imposes rigid constrains on the partition functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories. Many fundamental results follow strictly from modular invariance, giving rise to the numerical modular bootstrap program.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Anatoly Dymarsky , Alfred Shapere

This paper explores the numerical conformal bootstrap in general spacetime dimensions through the lens of a distinct category of analytic functionals, previously employed in two-dimensional studies. We extend the application of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-30 Kausik Ghosh , Zechuan Zheng

Conformal field theories that exhibit spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry (a moduli space of vacua) must satisfy a set of bootstrap constraints, involving the usual data (scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients) as well as new data…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Gabriel Cuomo , Leonardo Rastelli , Adar Sharon

The recent emergence of the modern conformal bootstrap method for the study of conformal field theories (CFTs) has enabled the revisiting of old problems in classical critical phenomena described by three-dimensional CFTs. The study of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

Conformal field theories play a central role in modern theoretical physics with many applications to the understanding of phase transitions, gauge theories and even the quantum physics of gravity, through Maldacena's celebrated holographic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Volker Schomerus

A method for consistent quantization of conformal gravity treating conformal symmetry in a very controllable way is presented. First, we discuss local conformal symmetry in the framework of gravitational interactions, where we view it as an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-02 Lesław Rachwał

Starting with the idea to describe phenomenologically the particle creation in the strong gravitational fields, we introduced explicitly the particle number nonconservation (= creation law) into the action integral with the corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-27 V. A. Berezin , V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko