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Finite-temperature, grand-canonical computations based on field theory are widely applied in areas including condensed matter physics, ultracold atomic gas systems, and lattice gauge theory. However, these calculations have computational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-02 Yuan-Yao He , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

We use a combination of perturbation theory and numerical techniques to study the equilibration of two interacting fields which are initially at thermal equilibrium at different temperatures. Using standard rules of quantum field theory, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Vaz , M. E. Carrington , R. Kobes , G. Kunstatter

We calculate the finite temperature three-point correlation function for primary fields in a 2D conformal field theory in momentum space. This result has applications to any strongly coupled field theory with a 2D CFT dual, as well as to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Melanie Becker , Yaniel Cabrera , Ning Su

In recent years, a method for computing spin dynamics at infinite temperature (spinDMFT) was developed. It utilizes the ideas of dynamical mean-field theory for fermions: single-site approximation and a self-consistency condition to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-24 Przemysław Bieniek , Timo Gräßer , Götz S. Uhrig

We introduce a class of thermal operations based on the collision model, where the system sequentially interacts with uncorrelated bath molecules via energy-preserving unitaries. To ensure finite complexity, each molecule is constrained to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Xueyuan Hu , Valerio Scarani

It is shown that three series of diagrams entering the calculation of some hot $QCD$ process, are mass (or collinear) singularity free, indeed. This generalizes a result which was recently established up to the third non trivial order of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Thierry Grandou

We implement a bootstrap method that combines stationary state conditions, thermal inequalities, and semidefinite relaxations of matrix logarithm in the ungauged one-matrix quantum mechanics, at finite rank N as well as in the large N…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-28 Minjae Cho , Barak Gabai , Joshua Sandor , Xi Yin

The method of QCD sum rules at finite temperature is reviewed, with emphasis on recent results. These include predictions for the survival of charmonium and bottonium states, at and beyond the critical temperature for de-confinement, as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-27 Alejandro Ayala , C. A. Dominguez , M. Loewe

By combining conventional finite-temperature many-body perturbation theory with cluster expansions, we develop a systematic method to carry out high order arbitrary temperature perturbative calculations on the computer. The method is well…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Norbert Elstner , Rajiv. R. P. Singh

We show that the one-loop effective action at finite temperature for a scalar field with quartic interaction has the same renormalized expression as at zero temperature if written in terms of a certain classical field $\phi_c$, and if we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 A. Bessa , F. T. Brandt , C. A. A. de Carvalho , E. S. Fraga

In this proceedings we present a state-of-the-art method of calculating thermodynamic potential at finite temperature and finite chemical potential, using Hard Thermal Loop perturbation theory (HTLpt) up to next-to-next-leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-03 Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Najmul Haque , Munshi G. Mustafa , Michael Strickland , Nan Su

For quantum many-body systems in one dimension, computational complexity theory reveals that the evaluation of ground-state energy remains elusive on quantum computers, contrasting the existence of a classical algorithm for temperatures…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-11 Atsushi Iwaki , Chisa Hotta

I review recent progress in study of strongly interacting matter at high temperatures using Monte-Carlo simulations in lattice QCD.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-04 P. Petreczky

We discuss the influence of strong quantum fluctuations on zero-temperature phase transitions in a two-dimensional spin-half Heisenberg system. Using a high-order coupled cluster treatment, we study competition of magnetic bonds with and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-24 J. Richter , S. E. Krüger , D. J. J. Farnell , R. F. Bishop

We present a time-dependent formulation of coupled cluster theory. This theory allows for direct computation of the free energy of quantum systems at finite temperature by imaginary time integration and is closely related to the thermal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Alec F. White , Garnet Chan

A three-dimensional effective theory of the finite-temperature SU(5)+adjoint Higgs model is constructed using the method of dimensional reduction. The resulting theory can be used for computer simulations of the GUT phase transition of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Arttu Rajantie

In this paper, we study numerical approximations of the ground states in finite temperature density functional theory. We formulate the problem with respect to the density matrices and justify the convergence of the finite dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Ge Xu , Huajie Chen , Xingyu Gao

The heat kernel expansion for field theory at finite temperature is constructed. It is based on the imaginary time formalism and applies to generic Klein-Gordon operators in flat space-time. Full gauge invariance is manifest at each order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Megias , E. Ruiz Arriola , L. L. Salcedo

We revisit the question of whether or not one can perform reliable semiclassical QCD computations at zero temperature. We study correlation functions with no perturbative contributions, and organize the problem by means of the operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Michael Dine , Guido Festuccia , Lawrence Pack , Weitao Wu

We investigate a quasi-adiabatic thermal process for preparing finite-temperature ensembles in the thermodynamic limit. The process gradually transforms a thermal ensemble of a noninteracting system into that of an interacting system of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Tatsuhiko Shirai