Conformal Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics

2008/07/22 by Cardy, John · 6 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0807.3472

Abstract

The lectures provide a pedagogical introduction to the methods of CFT as applied to two-dimensional critical behaviour.

Cited by

• DC Conductance of X-shaped Majorana Interferometer reveals Non-Abelian Anyon Statistics
• Complex Conformal Manifolds
• The Z_N equivariant Virasoro algebra via alternative Sugawara constructions
• Loss of Asymptotic Freedom in the Two-Dimensional <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi mathvariant="normal">O</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi mathvariant="normal">N</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> Nonlinear Sigma Model: Complex Conformal Field Theory and Realization in Heisenberg Spin Chains
• Black Hole Entropy and Complexity Growth in Horndeski Gravity within the AdS/BCFT Framework
• Virasoro OPE and Conformal Blocks from the Inverse Shapovalov Form

Related

• Analytic results in conformal field theory
• Applied Conformal Field Theory
• An introduction to 2d conformal field theory
• A Collection of Exercises in Two-Dimensional Physics, Part 1
• Young Researchers School 2024 Maynooth: Lectures on CFT, BCFT and DCFT