Magnetised Bounds for Conformal Field Theories
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| author | Herzog, Christopher P. Pannell, William H. Sahoo, Biswajit Stergiou, Andreas |
| author_facet | Herzog, Christopher P. Pannell, William H. Sahoo, Biswajit Stergiou, Andreas |
| contents | Aspects of parity-preserving, three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a global $U(1)$ symmetry in the presence of a background magnetic field are investigated. A local effective action is constructed to four-derivative order, based on an assumption that the magnetic field drives the theory into a gapped phase. This action is evaluated in a variety of backgrounds, and is used to obtain one- and two-point functions of the conserved current and stress-energy tensor. Dispersive arguments are developed and shown to impose powerful constraints on the Wilson coefficients of the effective action, leading to universal predictions for the CFT response at large magnetic field and the scaling dimensions of background monopole operators. These general results are further examined through explicit calculations in the free complex scalar, free Dirac fermion, and a holographic Einstein-Hilbert-Maxwell model. |
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| spellingShingle | Magnetised Bounds for Conformal Field Theories Herzog, Christopher P. Pannell, William H. Sahoo, Biswajit Stergiou, Andreas High Energy Physics - Theory Strongly Correlated Electrons Aspects of parity-preserving, three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a global $U(1)$ symmetry in the presence of a background magnetic field are investigated. A local effective action is constructed to four-derivative order, based on an assumption that the magnetic field drives the theory into a gapped phase. This action is evaluated in a variety of backgrounds, and is used to obtain one- and two-point functions of the conserved current and stress-energy tensor. Dispersive arguments are developed and shown to impose powerful constraints on the Wilson coefficients of the effective action, leading to universal predictions for the CFT response at large magnetic field and the scaling dimensions of background monopole operators. These general results are further examined through explicit calculations in the free complex scalar, free Dirac fermion, and a holographic Einstein-Hilbert-Maxwell model. |
| title | Magnetised Bounds for Conformal Field Theories |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13592 |