Diagrammatic representation of scalar QCD and sign problem at nonzero chemical potential
Abstract
We consider QCD at strong coupling with scalar quarks coupled to a chemical potential. Performing the link integrals we present a diagrammatic representation of the path integral weight. It is based on mesonic and baryonic building blocks, in close analogy to fermionic QCD. Likewise, the baryon loops are subject to a manifest conservation of the baryon number. The sign problem is expected to disappear in this representation and we do confirm this for three flavors, where a scalar baryon can be built and thus a dependence on the chemical potential occurs. For higher flavor number we analyse examples for a potential sign problem in the baryon sector and conjecture that all weights are positive upon exploring the current conservation of each flavor.
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@article{arxiv.1710.08243,
title = {Diagrammatic representation of scalar QCD and sign problem at nonzero chemical potential},
author = {Falk Bruckmann and Jacob Wellnhofer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.08243},
year = {2018}
}
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6 pages, 2 figures