Theorie-Palaver

March 1, 2016 at 2:30 p.m. in Lorentz room

Upalaparna Banerjee

Marco Fedele

Yann Gouttenoire

Antonela Matijasic

Surface critical exponents from the Conformal Bootstrap
Pedro Liendo (HU Berlin)


We explore the consequences of crossing symmetry for conformal field theories in the presence of a boundary, which is a model for surface critical behavior. After reviewing the possible surface transitions associated with a bulk universality class, we will proceed to estimate surface critical exponents numerically. Our results show good agreement when compared with other methods, like Monte Carlo simulations and epsilon expansion calculations.