7 papers
From 2D Yang-Mills to Calogero-Sutherland via a colored particle
Marcia Tenser, Amilcar R. Queiroz
We study Yang-Mills theory coupled to a particle on a cylinder, where gauge invariance and compactness reduce the dynamics to a finite dimensional quantum system. In the Abelian ca…
Strong coupling dynamics of defect RG flows in ABJM
Marco S. Bianchi, Luigi Castiglioni, Silvia Penati +2
Wilson loop operators in ABJM theory provide a rich arena for studying defect conformal field theories (dCFTs) and the renormalization group (RG) flows connecting them. While these…
States of 2D Yang-Mills and Large-Volume Entanglement
Dmitry Melnikov, Jefferson T. Oliveira, Valmir Peixoto +1
We study entanglement in two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory, viewed as a quasi-topological model of emergent space. The most familiar class of states in this theory are states defin…
Framed defects in ABJ(M)
Marco S. Bianchi, Luigi Castiglioni, Silvia Penati +2
We investigate the role of framing in a family of 1/24 BPS Wilson loops in ABJ(M) theory, which define flows between 1/6 BPS and the 1/2 BPS superconformal fixed points. We analyze…
Conformal defects and RG flows in ABJM
Luigi Castiglioni, Silvia Penati, Marcia Tenser +1
Defects play a central role in many contexts, from condensed matter to quantum gravity. The situations in which the bulk theory is conformal and the defect inherits part of this sy…
Framing fermionic Wilson loops in ABJ(M)
Marco S. Bianchi, Luigi Castiglioni, Silvia Penati +2
Framing plays a central role in the evaluation of Wilson loops in theories with Chern-Simons actions. In pure Chern-Simons theory, it guarantees topological invariance, while in th…