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We present results on the QCD phase diagram for small densities without reweighting. Our simulations are performed with an imaginary chemical potential mu_I for which the fermion determinant is positive. On an 8^3x4 lattice with 2 flavors…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 P. de Forcrand , O. Philipsen

The mystery of the infamous sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulations mightily restricts applications of the method in fermionic and frustrated systems. A recent work [Science 375, 418 (2022)] made a remarkable breakthrough in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-27 Nvsen Ma , Jun-Song Sun , Gaopei Pan , Chen Cheng , Zheng Yan

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods offer exact solutions for quantum many-body systems but face severe limitations in fermionic systems like atomic nuclei due to the sign problem. While sign-problem-free QMC algorithms exist and provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Zhong-Wang Niu , Bing-Nan Lu

Recent progress of the complex Langevin method and the Lefschetz thimble in connection with the sign problem is reviewed. These methods rely on the complexification of the original field manifold and they allow direct simulations of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-12-01 Denes Sexty

The notorious sign problem severely limits the applicability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, as statistical errors grow exponentially with system size and inverse temperature. A recent proposal of a quantum-computing stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Kwai-Kong Ng , Min-Fong Yang

In this paper we test the complex Langevin algorithm for numerical simulations of a random matrix model of QCD with a first order phase transition to a phase of finite baryon density. We observe that a naive implementation of the algorithm…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-04 J. Bloch , J. Glesaaen , J. J. M. Verbaarschot , S. Zafeiropoulos

A possible solution of the notorious sign problem preventing direct Monte Carlo calculations for systems with non-zero chemical potential is to deform the integration region in the complex plane to a Lefschetz thimble. We investigate this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo Bedaque

Monte Carlo simulations of finite density systems are often plagued by the complex action problem. We point out that there exists certain non-commutativity in the zero chemical potential limit and the thermodynamic limit when one tries to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Ambjorn , Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos , Jun Nishimura , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

We present a simple trick that allows to consider the sum of all connected Feynman diagrams at fixed position of interaction vertices for general fermionic models. With our approach one achieves superior performance compared to Diagrammatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Riccardo Rossi

We study the high density region of QCD within an effective model obtained in the frame of the hopping parameter expansion and choosing Polyakov type of loops as the main dynamical variables representing the fermionic matter. To get a first…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 R. De Pietri , A. Feo , E. Seiler , I. -O. Stamatescu

For decades now, low-energy models of QCD have shown indications that a crystalline quark phase could be stable at high chemical potentials. Beyond models, however, there are numerous difficulties in investigating such a hypothesis in full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Theo F. Motta

QCD at nonzero baryon chemical potential suffers from the sign problem, due to the complex quark determinant. Complex Langevin dynamics can provide a solution, provided certain conditions are met. One of these conditions, holomorphicity of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-06-07 Gert Aarts , Erhard Seiler , Denes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

We study the two dimensional lattice Thirring model in the presence of a fermion chemical po- tential. Our model is asymptotically free, contains massive fermions that mimic a baryon and light bosons that mimic pions. Hence it is a useful…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-03-14 Venkitesh Ayyar , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Jarno Rantaharju

The QCD light quark mass renormalized at a 1 GeV scale in the $ \overline{MS} $ scheme is obtained from the numerical results of the lattice QCD simulation with staggered fermions. The primary emphasis is given to the connection between the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Weonjong Lee

Previous investigations have shown that the canonical approach to simulating QCD at finite density is promising. The algorithm we used in our earlier work employs an exact calculation of the fermionic determinant which limits the size of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei Alexandru , Anyi Li , Keh-Fei Liu

The sign problem of finite-density QCD at the zero temperature becomes very severe if the quark chemical potential exceeds half of the pion mass. In order to understand its property, we consider the sign problem of the one-site fermion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-01 Yuya Tanizaki , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Tomoya Hayata

Monte Carlo calculations in the framework of lattice field theory provide non-perturbative access to the equilibrium physics of quantum fields. When applied to certain fermionic systems, or to the calculation of out-of-equilibrium physics,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-06-23 Scott Lawrence

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations, while being efficient for bosons, suffer from the "negative sign problem'' when applied to fermions - causing an exponential increase of the computing time with the number of particles. A polynomial time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Troyer , Uwe-Jens Wiese

It has been a big challenge for lattice QCD to simulate dynamical quarks near the chiral limit. Theoretically, it is well-known that the naive chiral symmetry cannot be realized on the lattice (the Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem). Also…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-23 Hidenori Fukaya

We argue that lattice simulations of full QCD with varying quark mass are best conducted at fixed lattice spacing rather than at fixed $\beta$. We present techniques which enable this to be carried out effectively, namely the tuning in bare…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Alan C. Irving , UKQCD Collaboration