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Simulations of QCD with a finite chemical potential typically lead to a severe sign problem, prohibiting any standard Monte Carlo approach. Complex Langevin simulations provide an alternative to sample path integrals with oscillating weight…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-12 Gert Aarts , Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger , Erhard Seiler , Denes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

Complex Langevin (CL) is a computational method to circumvent the numerical sign problem with applications in finite-density quantum chromodynamics and the real-time dynamics of quantum field theories. It has long been known that, depending…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-03-24 Kirill Boguslavski , Paul Hotzy , David I. Müller

The ability to describe strongly interacting matter at finite temperature and baryon density provides the means to determine, for instance, the equation of state of QCD at non-zero baryon chemical potential. From a theoretical point of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-01-30 Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger

We develop diffusion models for simulating lattice gauge theories, where stochastic quantization is explicitly incorporated as a physical condition for sampling. We demonstrate the applicability of this novel sampler to U(1) gauge theory in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-26 Qianteng Zhu , Gert Aarts , Wei Wang , Kai Zhou , Lingxiao Wang

The complex Langevin method is one hopeful candidate to tackle the sign problem. This method is applicable not only to QCD but also to nonrelativistic field theory, such as condensed matter physics. We present the simulation results of a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-08-04 Arata Yamamoto , Tomoya Hayata

We present a coarse-grained lattice model of solvation thermodynamics and the hydrophobic effect that implements the ideas of Lum-Chandler-Weeks (LCW) theory [J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 4570 (1999)] and improves upon previous lattice models…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-05 Patrick Varilly , Amish J. Patel , David Chandler

The sign problem of QCD prevents standard lattice simulations to determine the phase diagram of strong interactions with a finite chemical potential directly. Complex Langevin simulations provide an alternative method to sample path…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-09 Gert Aarts , Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

State-of-the-art lattice QCD studies of hot and dense strongly interacting matter currently rely on extrapolation from zero or imaginary chemical potentials. The ill-posedness of numerical analytic continuation puts severe limitations on…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-04-06 Szabolcs Borsanyi , Zoltan Fodor , Matteo Giordano , Sandor D. Katz , Daniel Nogradi , Attila Pasztor , Chik Him Wong

The complex Langevin method in conjunction with the gauge cooling is applied to the two-dimensional lattice $SU(2)$ Yang-Mills theory that is analytically solvable. We obtain strong numerical evidence that at large Langevin time the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-10-21 Hiroki Makino , Hiroshi Suzuki , Daisuke Takeda

The complex Langevin (CL) method is a promising approach to overcome the sign problem that occurs in real-time formulations of quantum field theories. Using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we study SU($N_c$) gauge theories with CL. We…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-06-13 Kirill Boguslavski , Paul Hotzy , David I. Müller

Lattice QCD allows us to simulate QCD at non-zero temperature and/or densities. Such equilibrium thermodynamics calculations are relevant to the physics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. I give a brief review of the field with emphasis…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-23 D. K. Sinclair

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 study lattice QCD at non-vanishing chemical potential using the complex Langevin equation. We compare the results with multi-parameter reweighting both from $\mu=0$ and phase quenched ensembles. We find a good agreement for lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-02 Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz , D. Sexty , C. Török

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 discuss recent developments regarding the use of kernels in complex Langevin simulations. In particular, we outline how a kernel can be used to solve the problem of wrong convergence in a simple toy model. Since conventional correctness…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-17 Michael Mandl , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

The method of complex Langevin simulations is a tool that can be used to tackle the complex-action problem encountered, for instance, in finite-density lattice quantum chromodynamics or real-time lattice field theories. The method is based…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-18 Michael Mandl , Michael W. Hansen , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

I briefly introduce the methods by which lattice QCD predictions for RHIC are obtained. Next I deal with lattice determinations of strangeness production and event-to-event fluctuations of conserved quantities. I also present a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Sourendu Gupta

We demonstrate that the complex Langevin method (CLM) enables calculations in QCD at finite density in a parameter regime in which conventional methods, such as the density of states method and the Taylor expansion method, are not…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-12-02 Yuta Ito , Hideo Matsufuru , Yusuke Namekawa , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki , Asato Tsuchiya , Shoichiro Tsutsui

The complex Langevin (CL) method is a promising approach to overcome the sign problem, which emerges in real-time formulations of quantum field theories. Over the past decade, stabilization techniques for CL have been developed with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-10-18 Kirill Boguslavski , Paul Hotzy , David I. Müller

The 2nd order Runge-Kutta scheme Langevin simulation of unquenched QCD in pseudofermion method derived from our general theory shows a behaviour as a function of the Langevin step t better than the Fukugita,Oyanagi,Ukawa's scheme.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 Hideo Nakajima , Sadataka Furui