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Beyond Thimbles: Sign-Optimized Manifolds for Finite Density

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2018-10-17 v2

Abstract

The sign problem of relativistic field theories at finite fermion chemical potential has been approached by deforming the domain of integration into complex field space. We present a method for selecting a deformed manifold of integration which is a local maximum of the average phase, and demonstrate this method on the three-dimensional Thirring model. Finally, we compare the performance of this method, in the heavy-dense limit, to direct integration on the Lefschetz thimbles.

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@article{arxiv.1810.06529,
  title  = {Beyond Thimbles: Sign-Optimized Manifolds for Finite Density},
  author = {Scott Lawrence},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06529},
  year   = {2018}
}

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7 pages; proceedings from LATTICE2018

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