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Effective Potential for Complex Langevin Equations

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-09-01 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We construct an effective potential for the complex Langevin equation on a lattice. We show that the minimum of this effective potential gives the space-time and Langevin time average of the complex Langevin field. The loop expansion of the effective potential is matched with the derivative expansion of the associated Schwinger-Dyson equation to predict the stationary distribution to which the complex Langevin equation converges.

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@article{arxiv.0902.1503,
  title  = {Effective Potential for Complex Langevin Equations},
  author = {Gerald Guralnik and Cengiz Pehlevan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.1503},
  year   = {2009}
}

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23 pages, 2 figures

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