Conformal defects of general dimensions at finite temperature

arXiv:2609.12720 · hep-th, cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.str-el · Submitted 2026-09-11 · Read on arXiv

hep-th, cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.str-el

Submitted: 2026-09-11

Updated: 2026-10-02

Comments: 57+14 pages, 3 figures, 8 tables; v3: minor revision, a reference added

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Trace — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Entanglement — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Entanglement Entropy — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Conservation Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Vector Representations — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Conformal collider physics: Energy and charge correlations
• Emergent Spacetime and Holographic CFTs
• The Conformal Bootstrap at Finite Temperature
• Modular forms and a generalized Cardy formula in higher dimensions
• Universality of Sparse $d>2$ Conformal Field Theory at Large $N$
• Modular invariance and thermal effective field theory in CFT
• Thermal Order in Conformal Theories
• Thermal order in large N conformal gauge theories
• A model of persistent breaking of discrete symmetry
• A model of persistent breaking of continuous symmetry
• Temperature-Resistant Order in 2+1 Dimensions
• Bootstrapping the 3d Ising model at finite temperature
• Dynamics of Finite-Temperature CFTs from OPE Inversion Formulas
• Broken (super) conformal Ward identities at finite temperature
• The thermal bootstrap for the critical O(N) model
• The analytic bootstrap at finite temperature
• Universal Asymptotics for High Energy CFT Data
• Universality of R'enyi Entropy in Conformal Field Theory
• The Bootstrap Program for Boundary CFT_d
• Conformal constraints on defects

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