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The light Higgs boson of the Standard Model could arise as the consequence of the weakly broken conformal symmetry in a strongly interacting gauge theory. Here we present a novel idea to study the transition from conformal to confining…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-10-28 Evan Weinberg , Rich Brower , Anna Hasenfratz , Claudio Rebbi , Oliver Witzel

We present a brief overview of our recent lattice studies of SU(3) gauge theory with N_f = 8 and 12 fundamental fermions, including some new and yet-unpublished results. To explore relatively unfamiliar systems beyond lattice QCD, we carry…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-23 Anna Hasenfratz , Anqi Cheng , Gregory Petropoulos , David Schaich

We study the renormalization group properties of SU(3) gauge theories with N_f=8 and 12 nearly-massless fermions, using Monte Carlo Renormalization Group (MCRG) two-lattice matching techniques to predict bare step-scaling functions s_b.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-12-04 Gregory Petropoulos , Anqi Cheng , Anna Hasenfratz , David Schaich

A two-dimensional lattice of oscillators with identical (zero) intrinsic frequencies and Kuramoto type of interactions with randomly frustrated couplings is considered. Starting the time evolution from slightly perturbed synchronized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-06 Róbert Juhász , Géza Ódor

The gradient flow provides a new class of renormalized observables which can be measured with high precision in lattice simulations. In principle this allows for many interesting applications to renormalization and improvement problems. In…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-22 Argia Rubeo , Stefan Sint

We study the pattern of zeros emerging from exact partition function evaluations of Ising spin glasses on conventional finite lattices of varying sizes. A large number of random bond configurations are probed in the framework of quenched…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 P. H. Damgaard , J. Lacki

We study the partition-function zeros in mean-field spin-glass models. We show that the replica method is useful to find the locations of zeros in a complex parameter plane. For the random energy model, we obtain the phase diagram in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Kazutaka Takahashi

There are numerous methods to characterize topology and its boundary zero modes, yet their statistical mechanical properties have not received as much attention as other approaches. Here, we investigate the Fisher zeros and thermofield…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-03 Yuchen Meng , Yang Liu , Erhai Zhao , Haiyuan Zou

The gradient flow transformation can be interpreted as continuous real-space renormalization group transformation if a coarse-graining step is incorporated as part of calculating expectation values. The method allows to predict critical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-12-19 Anna Hasenfratz , Oliver Witzel

A phenomenological approach to the ferromagnetic two dimensional Potts model on square lattice is proposed. Our goal is to present a simple functional form that obeys the known properties possessed by the free energy of the q-state Potts…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-18 Marco Astorino , Fabrizio Canfora

Partition function zeros steer the critical behavior of a system. Studying four-flavor lattice QCD at finite temperature and density with the Wilson-clover fermion action and the Iwasaki gauge action using a phase-quenched fermion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-18 Xiao-Yong Jin , Yoshinobu Kuramashi , Yoshifumi Nakamura , Shinji Takeda , Akira Ukawa

We explore connections between the phenomenon of correlation decay and the location of Lee-Yang and Fisher zeros for various spin systems. In particular we show that, in many instances, proofs showing that weak spatial mixing on the Bethe…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Jingcheng Liu , Alistair Sinclair , Piyush Srivastava

This paper is a continuation of our previous analysis [BBCKK] of partition functions zeros in models with first-order phase transitions and periodic boundary conditions. Here it is shown that the assumptions under which the results of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek Biskup , Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Roman Kotecky

Nonperturbative lattice field theory simulations provide a systematic framework to investigate properties of conformal systems at strong couplings. These simulations can be performed using different lattice discretizations. Here we present…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-09-13 A. Hasenfratz , C. Rebbi , O. Witzel

We consider a SU(2) lattice gauge theory on the square lattice, with a single fundamental complex fermion and a single fundamental complex boson on each lattice site. Projective symmetries of the gauge-charged fermions are chosen so that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-03 Maine Christos , Henry Shackleton , Subir Sachdev , Zhu-Xi Luo

We present a neural flow wavefunction, Gauge-Fermion FlowNet, and use it to simulate 2+1D lattice compact quantum electrodynamics with finite density dynamical fermions. The gauge field is represented by a neural network which parameterizes…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-15 Zhuo Chen , Di Luo , Kaiwen Hu , Bryan K. Clark

We study cutoff and lattice effects in the O(n) symmetric $\phi^4$ theory for a $d$-dimensional cubic geometry of size $L$ with periodic boundary conditions. In the large-N limit above $T_c$, we show that $\phi^4$ field theory at finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-11 X. S. Chen , V. Dohm

Concepts of the complex partition functions and the Fisher zeros provide intrinsic statistical mechanisms for finite temperature and real time dynamical phase transitions. We extend the utility of these complexifications to quantum phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-25 Yang Liu , Songtai Lv , Yang Yang , Haiyuan Zou

We study phase transitions in uniformly frustrated SU(N)-symmetric $(2+\epsilon)$-dimensional lattice models describing type-II superconductors near the upper critical magnetic field $H_{c2}(T)$. The low-temperature renormalization-group…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Giancarlo Jug , Boris N. Shalaev

We discuss the existence of a conformal phase in SU(N) gauge theories in four dimensions. In this lattice study we explore the model in the bare parameter space, varying the lattice coupling and bare mass. Simulations are carried out with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-26 A. Deuzeman , M. P. Lombardo , E. Pallante