Holographic Complex Conformal Field Theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-05-06 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
The loss of criticality in the form of weak first-order transitions or the end of the conformal window in gauge theories can be described as the merging of two fixed points that move to complex values of the couplings. When the complex fixed points are close to the real axis, the system typically exhibits walking behavior with Miransky (or Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless) scaling. We present a novel realization of these phenomena at strong coupling by means of the gauge/gravity duality, and give evidence for the conjectured existence of complex conformal field theories at the fixed points.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1909.04008,
title = {Holographic Complex Conformal Field Theories},
author = {Anton F. Faedo and Carlos Hoyos and David Mateos and Javier G. Subils},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.04008},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
11 pages, 5 figures. v2 matches published version