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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021

Solving Conformal Field Theories with the Functional Bootstrap

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have a wide range of experimental and theoretical applications: describing classical and quantum critical phenomena, where they determine critical exponents; as low (or high) energy limits of ordinary quantum field theories; and as theories of quantum gravity in disguise via the AdS/CFT correspondence. Unfortunately, most interesting CFTs are strongly interacting and difficult to analyse. On the one hand, perturbative and renormalization group methods usually involve approximations that are hard to control and which require difficult resummations. On the other hand, numerical simulations of the underlying systems are difficult near the critical point and can…

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