Quantum impurity models from conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2019)066MaRDI QIDQ2292483zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ying-Hai Wu, Hong-Hao Tu

Publication date 3 February 2020

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03464

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryfield theories in lower dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: The coupling between localized magnetic moments and itinerant electrons presents a plethora of interesting physics. The low-energy physics of some quantum impurity systems can be described using conformal field theory (CFT). In this paper, the connection between quantum impurity models and CFT is further strengthened as we construct a class of exactly solvable models with ground states given by CFT correlators. The method developed here is completely analytical and can be applied to fermions with an arbitrary number of colors and multiple impurities. Numerical calculations are performed to characterize certain aspects of our models for which we do not have analytical results.

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