Two-dimensional conformal field theory for disordered systems at criticality

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00128-9zbMath1002.81544arXivcond-mat/9509054OpenAlexW1967051601MaRDI QIDQ1911367

Xiao-Gang Wen, Claudio Chamon, Christopher Mudry

Publication date: 24 April 1996

Published in: Unnamed Author (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9509054

zbMATH Keywords

Current algebraNonlinear field theorygraded Lie groupsKac Moody current algebramassless Dirac fermionsnonGaussian momentsRandom Dirac fermionssingle particle Green function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27)

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