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 …

Duality between (2+ 1) d quantum critical points

T Senthil, DT Son, C Wang, C Xu - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Duality refers to two equivalent descriptions of the same theory from different points of view.
Recently there has been tremendous progress in formulating and understanding possible …

Phase transitions out of quantum Hall states in moiré materials

XY Song, YH Zhang, T Senthil - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Motivated by the recent experimental breakthroughs in observing fractional quantum
anomalous Hall (FQAH) states in moiré materials, we propose and study various …

Many-body ground states from decomposition of ideal higher Chern bands: Applications to chirally twisted graphene multilayers

J Dong, PJ Ledwith, E Khalaf, JY Lee… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Motivated by the higher Chern bands of twisted graphene multilayers, we consider flat
bands with arbitrary Chern number C with ideal quantum geometry. While C> 1 bands differ …

Landau-forbidden quantum criticality in Rydberg quantum simulators

JY Lee, J Ramette, MA Metlitski, V Vuletić, WW Ho… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson theory of phase transitions precludes a continuous transition
between two phases that spontaneously break distinct symmetries. However, quantum …

Intertwined fractional quantum anomalous Hall states and charge density waves

XY Song, CM Jian, L Fu, C Xu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Motivated by the recent experimental breakthrough on the observation of the fractional
quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effects in semiconductor and graphene moiré materials …

3d Abelian gauge theories at the boundary

L Di Pietro, D Gaiotto, E Lauria, J Wu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract A four-dimensional Abelian gauge field can be coupled to a 3d CFT with a U (1)
symmetry living on a boundary. This coupling gives rise to a continuous family of boundary …

Unconventional self-similar Hofstadter superconductivity from repulsive interactions

D Shaffer, J Wang, LH Santos - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Fractal Hofstadter bands have become widely accessible with the advent of moiré
superlattices, opening the door to studies of the effect of interactions in these systems. In this …

Theory of Hofstadter superconductors

D Shaffer, J Wang, LH Santos - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We study mean-field states resulting from the pairing of electrons in time-reversal broken
fractal Hofstadter bands, which arise in two-dimensional lattices where the unit cell traps …

Enhanced thermal Hall effect in the square-lattice Néel state

R Samajdar, MS Scheurer, S Chatterjee, H Guo, C Xu… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Common wisdom about conventional antiferromagnets is that their low-energy physics is
governed by spin–wave excitations. However, recent experiments on several cuprate …