111 citations · 149 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
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cond-mat.stat-mech2013★ 34 cited
Fusion of Critical Defect Lines in the 2D Ising Model
Costas Bachas, Ilka Brunner, Daniel Roggenkamp
Two defect lines separated by a distance delta look from much larger distances like a single defect. In the critical theory, when all scales are large compared to the cutoff scale,…
hep-th2007★ 111 cited
Fusion of conformal interfaces
C. Bachas, I. Brunner
We study the fusion of conformal interfaces in the c=1 conformal field theory. We uncover an elegant structure reminiscent of that of black holes in supersymmetric theories. The ro…
hep-th1999★ 4 cited
`Desert' in Energy or Transverse Space?
C. Bachas
I review the issue of string and compactification scales in the weak-coupling regimes of string theory. I explain how in the Brane World scenario a (effectively) two-dimensional tr…