The nonperturbative functional renormalization group and its applications

N Dupuis, L Canet, A Eichhorn, W Metzner… - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
The renormalization group plays an essential role in many areas of physics, both
conceptually and as a practical tool to determine the long-distance low-energy properties of …

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 …

Snowmass white paper: the cosmological bootstrap

D Baumann, D Green, A Joyce, E Pajer… - SciPost Physics …, 2024 - scipost.org
This white paper summarizes recent progress in the cosmological bootstrap, an approach to
the study of the statistics of primordial fluctuations from consistency with unitarity, locality and …

[HTML][HTML] Selected topics in analytic conformal bootstrap: A guided journey

A Bissi, A Sinha, X Zhou - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
This review aims to offer a pedagogical introduction to the analytic conformal bootstrap
program via a journey through selected topics. We review analytic methods which include …

Uncovering conformal symmetry in the 3D Ising transition: state-operator correspondence from a quantum fuzzy sphere regularization

W Zhu, C Han, E Huffman, JS Hofmann, YC He - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
The 3D Ising transition, the most celebrated and unsolved critical phenomenon in nature,
has long been conjectured to have emergent conformal symmetry, similar to the case of the …

Carving out OPE space and precise O (2) model critical exponents

SM Chester, W Landry, J Liu, D Poland… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We develop new tools for isolating CFTs using the numerical bootstrap. A “cutting
surface” algorithm for scanning OPE coefficients makes it possible to find islands in high …

The lightcone bootstrap and the spectrum of the 3d Ising CFT

D Simmons-Duffin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
We compute numerically the dimensions and OPE coefficients of several operators in the 3d
Ising CFT, and then try to reverse-engineer the solution to crossing symmetry analytically …

Towards the non-perturbative cosmological bootstrap

M Hogervorst, J Penedones, KS Vaziri - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study quantum field theory on a de Sitter spacetime dS d+ 1 background. Our
main tool is the Hilbert space decomposition in irreducible unitary representations of its …

The Gross-Neveu-Yukawa archipelago

RS Erramilli, LV Iliesiu, P Kravchuk, A Liu… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We perform a bootstrap analysis of a mixed system of four-point functions of
bosonic and fermionic operators in parity-preserving 3d CFTs with O (N) global symmetry …

[HTML][HTML] Bootstrability in defect CFT: integrated correlators and sharper bounds

A Cavaglià, N Gromov, J Julius, M Preti - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We continue to develop Bootstrability—a method merging Integrability and
Conformal Bootstrap to extract CFT data in integrable conformal gauge theories such …