Conformal invariance and multifractality at Anderson transitions in arbitrary dimensions

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Abstract

Multifractals arise in various systems across nature whose scaling behavior is characterized by a continuous spectrum of multifractal exponents Δq. In the context of Anderson transitions, the multifractality of critical wavefunctions is described by operators Oq with scaling dimensions Δq in a field theory description of the transitions. The operators Oq satisfy the so-called Abelian fusion, expressed as a simple operator product expansion. Assuming conformal invariance and Abelian fusion, we use the conformal bootstrap framework to derive a constraint that implies that the multifractal spectrum Δq (and its generalized form) must be quadratic in its arguments in any dimension d ≥ 2.

Publication: "Conformal invariance and multifractality at Anderson transitions in arbitrary dimensions", Jaychandran Padayasi, Ilya Gruzberg, arXiv: 2306.07340

Presenters

  • Jaychandran S Padayasi

    Ohio State University

Authors

  • Jaychandran S Padayasi

    Ohio State University

  • Ilya A Gruzberg

    Ohio State Univ - Columbus