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Operator Content of Two-Dimensional Conformally Invariant Theories

John Cardy
- 01 Jan 1986 - 
- Vol. 270, Iss: 2, pp 186-204
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In this paper, it was shown how conformal invariance relates many numerically accessible properties of the transfer matrix of a critical system in a finite-width infinitely long strip to bulk universal quantities.
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This article is published in Nuclear Physics.The article was published on 1986-01-01. It has received 1951 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rational conformal field theory & Conformal symmetry.

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The surface density of holographic entropy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the universal law that the entropy of a holographic screen is equal to a quarter of its area in the Planck system of units for static sources.
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Marginal deformation of minimal N=2 superconformal field theories and the witten index

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the unitary discrete series of N = 2 superconformal field theories and the SU (2) Wess-Zumino-Witten model belong to the same continuous one-parameter family of conformal systems.
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Monte Carlo transfer-matrix study of the frustrated XY model.

TL;DR: The Monte Carlo transfer-matrix method of Bl\"ote and Nightingale is used to obtain accurate numerical results for the central charge and exponents of the frustrated XY model and finds c=1.66\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.04 for the centrally charged model at the critical point.
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Quantum corrections to the BTZ black hole extremality bound from the conformal bootstrap

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that any unitary compact two-dimensional CFT with c > 1 and no symmetries beyond Virasoro has a parametrically large density of primary states at large spin.
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Critical statistics in quantum chaos and Calogero-Sutherland model at finite temperature.

TL;DR: It is shown that the number variance of the random matrix model is asymptotically linear with a slope depending on the parameters of the model, a signature of critical statistics.
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The Heterotic String

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Finite size scaling analysis of Ising model block distribution functions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the distribution function P L ( s ) of the local order parameters in finite blocks of linear dimension L for Ising lattices of dimension d = 2,3 and 4.
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Conformal invariance, the central charge, and universal finite-size amplitudes at criticality.

TL;DR: It is shown that for conformally invariant two-dimensional systems, the amplitude of the finite-size corrections to the free energy of an infinitely long strip of width L at criticality is linearly related to the conformal anomaly number c, for various boundary conditions.
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