Semiclassics, Goldstone bosons and CFT data

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)011zbMATH Open1380.81350arXiv1611.02912WikidataQ63354063 ScholiaQ63354063MaRDI QIDQ683093FDOQ683093

David Pirtskhalava, R. Rattazzi, A. Monin, Fiona K. Seibold

Publication date: 5 February 2018

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

Abstract: Hellerman et al. (arXiv:1505.01537) have shown that in a generic CFT the spectrum of operators carrying a large U(1) charge can be analyzed semiclassically in an expansion in inverse powers of the charge. The key is the operator state correspondence by which such operators are associated with a finite density superfluid phase for the theory quantized on the cylinder. The dynamics is dominated by the corresponding Goldstone hydrodynamic mode and the derivative expansion coincides with the inverse charge expansion. We illustrate and further clarify this situation by first considering simple quantum mechanical analogues. We then systematize the approach by employing the coset construction for non-linearly realized space-time symmetries. Focussing on CFT3 we illustrate the case of higher rank and non-abelian groups and the computation of higher point functions. Three point function coefficients turn out to satisfy universal scaling laws and correlations as the charge and spin are varied.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02912

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryeffective field theoriesnonperturbative effectssuperfluid phase

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

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