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Record W4407720661 · doi:10.21468/scipostphys.18.2.060

Bootstrapping frustrated magnets: the fate of the chiral ${\rm O}(N)\times {\rm O}(2)$ universality class

2025· article· lv· W4407720661 on OpenAlex
Marten Reehorst, Slava Rychkov, Benoit Sirois, Balt C. van Rees

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Bibliographic record

VenueSciPost Physics · 2025
Typearticle
Languagelv
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicBlack Holes and Theoretical Physics
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersFonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologiesEuropean Research CouncilUK Research and InnovationSimons Foundation
KeywordsUniversality (dynamical systems)Renormalization groupMagnetBootstrapping (finance)PhysicsCombinatoricsCondensed matter physicsMathematical physicsMathematicsQuantum mechanics

Abstract

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We study multiscalar theories with \text{O}(N) × \text{O}(2) <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mtext mathvariant="normal">O</mml:mtext> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="postfix">)</mml:mo> <mml:mo>×</mml:mo> <mml:mtext mathvariant="normal">O</mml:mtext> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">(</mml:mo> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="postfix">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> symmetry. These models have a stable fixed point in d <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> </mml:math> dimensions if N <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:math> is greater than some critical value N_c(d) <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="postfix">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> . Previous estimates of this critical value from perturbative and non-perturbative renormalization group methods have produced mutually incompatible results. We use numerical conformal bootstrap methods to constrain N_c(d) <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="prefix">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false" form="postfix">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> for 3 ≤ d &lt; 4 <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> <mml:mo>≤</mml:mo> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> <mml:mo>&lt;</mml:mo> <mml:mn>4</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> . Our results show that N_c&amp;gt; 3.78 <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mo>&gt;</mml:mo> <mml:mn>3.78</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> for d = 3 <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> . This favors the scenario that the physically relevant models with N = 2,3 <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> in d=3 <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> do not have a stable fixed point, indicating a first-order transition. Our result exemplifies how conformal windows can be rigorously constrained with modern numerical bootstrap algorithms.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.341
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it