The conformal bootstrap: Theory, numerical techniques, and applications

D Poland, S Rychkov, A Vichi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
Conformal field theories have been long known to describe the fascinating universal physics
of scale invariant critical points. They describe continuous phase transitions in fluids …

New developments in the numerical conformal bootstrap

S Rychkov, N Su - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Over the past 15 years, the numerical conformal bootstrap has become an indispensable
tool for studying strongly coupled conformal field theories in various dimensions. Reviewed …

Analyticity and unitarity for cosmological correlators

L Di Pietro, V Gorbenko, S Komatsu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We study the fundamentals of quantum field theory on a rigid de Sitter space. We
show that the perturbative expansion of late-time correlation functions to all orders can be …

SO (5) Deconfined Phase Transition under the Fuzzy-Sphere Microscope: Approximate Conformal Symmetry, Pseudo-Criticality, and Operator Spectrum

Z Zhou, L Hu, W Zhu, YC He - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) is an example of phase transitions beyond
the Landau symmetry-breaking paradigm that attracts wide interest. However, its nature has …

Scaling of entanglement entropy at deconfined quantum criticality

J Zhao, YC Wang, Z Yan, M Cheng, ZY Meng - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We develop a nonequilibrium increment method to compute the Rényi entanglement
entropy and investigate its scaling behavior at the deconfined critical (DQC) point via large …

Bootstrapping deconfined quantum tricriticality

SM Chester, N Su - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The paradigmatic example of deconfined quantum criticality is the Neel to valence bond
solid phase transition. The continuum description of this transition is the N= 2 case of the …

Fermion disorder operator at gross-neveu and deconfined quantum criticalities

ZH Liu, W Jiang, BB Chen, J Rong, M Cheng, K Sun… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The fermion disorder operator has been shown to reveal the entanglement information in 1D
Luttinger liquids and 2D free and interacting Fermi and non-Fermi liquids emerging at …

Supercool composite dark matter beyond 100 TeV

I Baldes, Y Gouttenoire, F Sala, G Servant - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Dark Matter could be a composite state of a confining sector with an approximate
scale symmetry. We consider the case where the associated pseudo-Goldstone boson, the …

Spin impurities, Wilson lines and semiclassics

G Cuomo, Z Komargodski, M Mezei… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We consider line defects with large quantum numbers in conformal field theories.
First, we consider spin impurities, both for a free scalar triplet and in the Wilson-Fisher O (3) …

Phases of Wilson lines in conformal field theories

O Aharony, G Cuomo, Z Komargodski, M Mezei… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
We study the low-energy limit of Wilson lines (charged impurities) in conformal gauge
theories in 2+ 1 and 3+ 1 dimensions. As a function of the representation of the Wilson line …