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We investigate the applicability of complex Langevin dynamics to the three-dimensional XY model at finite chemical potential. To assess correctness, we introduce a new diagnostic based on the configurational temperature (or configurational…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-17 Anosh Joseph , Arpith Kumar

The complex Langevin method is extended to full QCD at non-zero chemical potential. The use of gauge cooling stabilizes the simulations at small enough lattice spacings. At large fermion mass the results are compared to the HQCD approach,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-03-19 Denes Sexty

Complex Langevin simulations have been able to successfully reproduce results from Monte Carlo methods in the region where the sign problem is mild and make predictions when it is exponentially hard. We present here our study of the QCD…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-10-25 Gert Aarts , Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger , Dénes Sexty

We employ the Complex Langevin method for simulation of complex-valued actions. First, we show how to test for convergence of the method by explicitely computing boundary terms and demonstrate this in a model. Then we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-10-30 Manuel Scherzer , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

We propose two novel formulations of the hopping parameter expansion for finite density QCD using Wilson fermions, while keeping the gauge action intact. We use the complex Langevin equation to circumvent the sign problem in the theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-03-31 G. Aarts , E. Seiler , D. Sexty , I. -O. Stamatescu

We discuss the problem of possible boundary terms at poles of the drift in the complex Langevin method, which spoil correctness of the method. For the simplest, however paradigmatic cases we can find complete answers. Lessons for more…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-18 Erhard Seiler

Lefschetz thimbles and complex Langevin dynamics both provide a means to tackle the numerical sign problem prevalent in theories with a complex weight in the partition function, e.g. due to nonzero chemical potential. Here we collect some…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-22 Gert Aarts , Lorenzo Bongiovanni , Erhard Seiler , Denes Sexty

The Complex Langevin (CL) method sometimes shows convergence to the wrong limit, even though the Schwinger-Dyson Equations (SDE) are fulfilled. We analyze this problem in a more general context for the case of one complex variable. We prove…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Lorenzo Luis Salcedo , Erhard Seiler

The theoretical treatment of Fermi systems consisting of particles with unequal masses is challenging. Even in one spatial dimension analytic solutions are limited to special configurations and numerical progress with Monte Carlo…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-19 Lukas Rammelmüller , Joaquín E. Drut , Jens Braun

In this review, I recall the nature and the inevitability of the "sign problem" which plagues attempts to simulate lattice QCD at finite baryon density. I present the main approaches used to circumvent the sign problem at small chemical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 Philippe de Forcrand

The complex Langevin (CL) method shows significant potential in addressing the numerical sign problem. Nonetheless, it often produces incorrect results when used without any stabilization techniques. Leveraging insights from previous…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-17 Kirill Boguslavski , Paul Hotzy , David I. Müller

Monte Carlo studies of QCD at finite density suffer from the sign problem, which becomes easily uncontrollable as the chemical potential $\mu$ is increased even for a moderate lattice size. In this work we make an attempt to approach the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-06 Yuta Ito , Hideo Matsufuru , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki , Asato Tsuchiya , Shoichiro Tsutsui

QCD at non-zero chemical potential ($\mu$) for quark number has a complex fermion determinant and thus standard simulation methods for lattice QCD cannot be applied. We therefore simulate this theory using the Complex-Langevin algorithm…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-10-22 D. K. Sinclair , J. B. Kogut

The complex Langevin method (CLM) offers a potential solution to the sign problem in quantum field theories with complex actions, but can converge to incorrect results even when simulations appear stable. Existing diagnostics monitor drift…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-10-30 Anosh Joseph , Arpith Kumar

We derive a family of correctness conditions for complex Langevin simulations. In particular, we show that if in a given theory the expectation values of all observables within a particular space satisfy the theory's Schwinger-Dyson…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-11 Michael Mandl , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

Some recent developments to handle the numerical sign problem in QCD and related theories at nonzero density are reviewed. In this contribution I focus on changing the integration order to soften the severity of the sign problem, the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-02-13 Gert Aarts

Non-perturbative formulations of field theories are essential to capture intriguing physical phenomena, including confinement in QCD, spontaneous supersymmetry breaking, and dynamical compactification in superstrings. Lattice regularization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-09-08 Arpith Kumar

In this paper we describe a new integration method for the groups $U(N)$ and $SU(N)$, for which we verified numerically that it is polynomially exact for $N\le 3$. The method is applied to the example of 1-dimensional QCD with a chemical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-14 A. Ammon , T. Hartung , K. Jansen , H. Leövey , J. Volmer

The $SU(3)$ spin model with chemical potential corresponds to a simplified version of QCD with static quarks in the strong coupling regime. It has been studied previously as a testing ground for new methods aiming to overcome the sign…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-10-28 Jangho Kim , Anh Quang Pham , Owe Philipsen , Jonas Scheunert

We study three possible ways to circumvent the sign problem in the O(3) nonlinear sigma model in 1+1 dimensions. We compare the results of the worm algorithm to complex Langevin and multiparameter reweighting. Using the worm algorithm, the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-03-22 Sandor D. Katz , Ferenc Niedermayer , Daniel Nogradi , Csaba Torok