Abstract
Key to characterizing universality in critical systems is the identification of the RG fixed point, which is very often a conformal field theory (CFT). We show how to use lattice operators that mimic the Virasoro generators of conformal symmetry to systematically extract, from a generic critical quantum spin chain, a complete set of the conformal data (central charge, scaling dimensions of primary fields, OPE coefficients) specifying a 2D CFT. We further show that, in the case of an extended superconformal symmetry, one can construct lattice operators that mimic the generators of the superconformal algebra, which allows us to identify superconformal primary states.
