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Real-time correlators in 3+1D thermal lattice gauge theory

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2025-03-24 v2 Other Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present the first direct ab-initio computation of unequal-time correlation functions in non-Abelian lattice gauge theory. We demonstrate non-trivial consistency relations among correlators, time-translation invariance, and agreement with Monte-Carlo results for thermal equilibrium in 3+1 dimensions by employing our stabilized complex Langevin method. Our work sets the stage to extract real-time observables, relevant to quark-gluon plasma physics within a first-principles real-time framework.

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@article{arxiv.2312.03063,
  title  = {Real-time correlators in 3+1D thermal lattice gauge theory},
  author = {Kirill Boguslavski and Paul Hotzy and David I. Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03063},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages, 10 figures; v2: published version