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Sampling of General Correlators in Worm Algorithm-based Simulations

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2016-08-15 v3

Abstract

Using the complex ϕ4\phi^4-model as a prototype for a system which is simulated by a worm algorithm, we show that not only the charged correlator <ϕ(x)ϕ(y)><\phi^{*}(x)\phi(y)>, but also more general correlators such as <ϕ(x)ϕ(y)><|\phi(x)||\phi(y)|> or <arg(ϕ(x))arg(ϕ(y))><\text{arg}(\phi(x))\text{arg}(\phi(y))>, as well as condensates like <ϕ><|\phi|>, can be measured at every step of the Monte Carlo evolution of the worm instead of on closed-worm configurations only. The method generalizes straightforwardly to other systems simulated by worms, such as spin or sigma models.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.09017,
  title  = {Sampling of General Correlators in Worm Algorithm-based Simulations},
  author = {Tobias Rindlisbacher and Oscar Akerlund and Philippe de Forcrand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.09017},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

43 pages, 15 figures

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