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Rotating superfluids and spinning charged operators in conformal field theory

Gabriel Cuomo, Anton de la Fuente, Alexander Monin, David Pirtskhalava, and Riccardo Rattazzi
Phys. Rev. D 97, 045012 – Published 15 February 2018

Abstract

We compute the scaling dimensions of operators with large global charge and spin in 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories. By the state-operator correspondence, these operators correspond to superfluids with vortices and can be systematically studied using effective field theory. As the spin increases from zero to the unitarity bound, the superfluid state corresponding to the lowest dimension operator passes through three distinct regimes: (i) a single phonon, (ii) two vortices, and (iii) multiple vortices. We also compute correlation functions with two such operators and the Noether current.

  • Received 13 November 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.045012

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Particles & FieldsCondensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

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Gabriel Cuomo1, Anton de la Fuente1, Alexander Monin2,3, David Pirtskhalava1,4, and Riccardo Rattazzi1

  • 1Theoretical Particle Physics Laboratory, Institute of Physics, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2Laboratory of Particle Physics and Cosmology, Institute of Physics, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 3Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
  • 4Theoretical Physics Group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

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Vol. 97, Iss. 4 — 15 February 2018

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