학술논문

Comments on epsilon expansion of the O$(N)$ model with boundary
Document Type
Working Paper
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Subject
High Energy Physics - Theory
Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
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Abstract
The O$(N)$ vector model in the presence of a boundary has a non-trivial fixed point in $(4-\epsilon)$ dimensions and exhibits critical behaviors described by boundary conformal field theory. The spectrum of boundary operators is investigated at the leading order in the $\epsilon$-expansion by diagrammatic and axiomatic approaches. In the latter, we extend the framework of Rychkov and Tan for the bulk theory to the case with a boundary and calculate the conformal dimensions of boundary composite operators with attention to the analyticity of correlation functions. In both approaches, we obtain consistent results.
Comment: 27 pages, 1 figure; v2: published version