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 …

New developments in the numerical conformal bootstrap

S Rychkov, N Su - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Over the past 15 years, the numerical conformal bootstrap has become an indispensable
tool for studying strongly coupled conformal field theories in various dimensions. Reviewed …

Proximate deconfined quantum critical point in SrCu2(BO3)2

Y Cui, L Liu, H Lin, KH Wu, W Hong, X Liu, C Li, Z Hu… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) represents a paradigm shift in quantum
matter studies, presenting a “beyond Landau” scenario for order-order transitions. Its …

Disorder operator and Rényi entanglement entropy of symmetric mass generation

ZH Liu, Y Da Liao, G Pan, M Song, J Zhao, W Jiang… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The “symmetric mass generation”(SMG) quantum phase transition discovered in recent
years has attracted great interest from both condensed matter and high energy theory …

Extracting subleading corrections in entanglement entropy at quantum phase transitions

M Song, J Zhao, ZY Meng, C Xu, M Cheng - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
We systematically investigate the finite size scaling behavior of the Rényi entanglement
entropy (EE) of several representative 2d quantum many-body systems between a …

Intrinsic and emergent anomalies at deconfined critical points

MA Metlitski, R Thorngren - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
It is well known that theorems of Lieb-Schultz-Mattis type prohibit the existence of a trivial
symmetric gapped ground state in certain systems possessing a combination of internal and …

Spectral evidence for Dirac spinons in a kagome lattice antiferromagnet

Z Zeng, C Zhou, H Zhou, L Han, R Chi, K Li, M Kofu… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Emergent quasiparticles with a Dirac dispersion in condensed matter systems can be
described by the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons, in analogy with Dirac particles in …

Signatures of a Deconfined Phase Transition on the Shastry-Sutherland Lattice: Applications to Quantum Critical

JY Lee, YZ You, S Sachdev, A Vishwanath - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We study a possible deconfined quantum phase transition in a realistic model of a two-
dimensional Shastry-Sutherland quantum magnet, using both numerical and field theoretic …

Monte Carlo study of lattice compact quantum electrodynamics with fermionic matter: The parent state of quantum phases

XY Xu, Y Qi, L Zhang, FF Assaad, C Xu, ZY Meng - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
The interplay between lattice gauge theories and fermionic matter accounts for fundamental
physical phenomena ranging from the deconfinement of quarks in particle physics to …

Phases of SO(5) Nonlinear Sigma Model with a Topological Term on a Sphere: Multicritical Point and Disorder Phase

BB Chen, X Zhang, Y Wang, K Sun, ZY Meng - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Novel critical phenomena beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm have been long
sought after. Among many candidate scenarios, the deconfined quantum critical point …