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Bootstrapping $N_f=4$ conformal QED$_3$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-04-21 v2 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We present the results of a conformal bootstrap study of the presumed unitary IR fixed point of quantum electrodynamics in three dimensions (QED3_3) coupled to Nf=4N_f=4 two-component Dirac fermions. Specifically, we study the four-point correlators of the SU(4)SU(4) adjoint fermion bilinear rr and the monopole of lowest topological charge M1/2\mathcal{M}_{1/2}. Most notably, the scaling dimensions of the fermion bilinear rr and the monopole M1/2\mathcal{M}_{1/2} are found to be constrained into a closed island with a combination of spectrum assumptions inspired by the 1/Nf1/N_f perturbative results as well as a novel interval positivity constraint on the next-lowest-charge monopole M1\mathcal{M}_1. Bounds in this island on the SU(4)SU(4) and topological U(1)tU(1)_t conserved current central charges cJc_J, cJtc_J^t, as well as on the stress tensor central charge cTc_T, are comfortably consistent with the perturbative results. Together with the scaling dimensions, this suggests that a part of estimates from the 1/Nf1/N_f expansion -- even at Nf=4N_f=4 -- provide a self-consistent solution to the bootstrap crossing relations, despite some of our assumptions not being strictly justified.

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@article{arxiv.2112.02106,
  title  = {Bootstrapping $N_f=4$ conformal QED$_3$},
  author = {Soner Albayrak and Rajeev S. Erramilli and Zhijin Li and David Poland and Yuan Xin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.02106},
  year   = {2022}
}

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v1: 66 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables; v2: revtex-2 version, typos corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-24T08:03:39.278Z