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We examine statistical field theories of polymeric fluids in view of performing numerical simulations. The partition function of these systems can be expressed as a functional integral over real density fields. The introduction of density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Glenn H. Fredrickson , Henri Orland

We study the sign problem in lattice field theory with a $\theta$ term. We apply the maximum entropy method (MEM) to flattening phenomenon of the free energy density $f(\theta)$, which originates from the sign problem. In our previous…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-09-29 Masahiro Imachi , Yasuhiko Shinno , Hiroshi Yoneyama

For problems of time-harmonic scattering by rational polygonal obstacles, embedding formulae express the far-field pattern induced by any incident plane wave in terms of the far-field patterns for a relatively small (frequency-independent)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-06 A. Gibbs , S. Langdon

Quantum cosmology aims at elucidating the beginning of our Universe. Back in early 80's, Vilenkin and Hartle-Hawking put forward the "tunneling from nothing" and "no boundary" proposals. Recently there has been renewed interest in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Chien-Yu Chou , Jun Nishimura

We demonstrate a full-wave numerical Maxwell-Bloch simulation tool including perfectly matched layer (PML) absorbing boundary conditions. To avoid detrimental reflection errors at the boundary of the simulation domain, an adapted PML model…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Johannes Popp , Lukas Seitner , Michael Haider , Christian Jirauschek

The notorious fermion sign problem, arising from fermion statistics, presents a fundamental obstacle to the numerical simulation of quantum many-body systems. Here, we introduce a framework that circumvents the sign problem in the studies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi-Xuan Li , Shuai Yin , Zi-Xiang Li

We study the most general triangle diagram through the Symmetries of Feynman Integrals (SFI) approach. The SFI equation system is obtained and presented in a simple basis. The system is solved providing a novel derivation of an essentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Barak Kol , Subhajit Mazumdar

In this work, we present a numerical method to consistently approximate solutions of a spatially discrete, double sine-Gordon chain which considers the presence of external damping. In addition to the finite-difference scheme employed to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 J. E. Macías-Díaz

We show how the prescription of taking the absolute value of the fermion determinant in the integration measure of QCD at finite density, forgetting its phase, reproduces the correct thermodynamical limit. This prescription, which applies…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Vicente Azcoiti

In this paper, we develop a numerical method for the L\'evy-Fokker-Planck equation with the fractional diffusive scaling. There are two main challenges. One comes from a two-fold nonlocality, that is, the need to apply the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Wuzhe Xu , Li Wang

A new symbolic algorithmic implementation of the general scheme of the exponentially convergent functional-discrete (FD-) method is developed and justified for the Sturm-Liouville problem on a finite interval for the Schr\"odinger equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Volodymyr Makarov , Nataliia Romaniuk

We present a guiding principle for designing fermionic Hamiltonians and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods that are free from the infamous sign problem by exploiting the Lie groups and Lie algebras that appear naturally in the Monte Carlo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-23 Lei Wang , Ye-Hua Liu , Mauro Iazzi , Matthias Troyer , Gergely Harcos

In this paper, by analyzing the underlying Lefschetz thimble structure, we study quantum phases in zero-dimensional scalar field theories with complex actions. Using first principles, we derive the Lefschetz thimble equations of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-01 R. Bharathkumar , Anosh Joseph

We derive a path-integral Schwinger-Keldysh approach for quantum spin systems. This is achieved by means of a semionic representation of spins as fermions with imaginary chemical potential. The major simplifying feature in comparison with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 M. N. Kiselev , R. Oppermann

Using lattice approximations of Euclidean space, we develop a way to approximate stable processes that are represented by stochastic integrals over Euclidean space. Via a stable version of the Lindeberg-Feller Theorem we show that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Clément Dombry , Paul Jung

A second order accurate numerical scheme is proposed and implemented for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, which models magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials, with large damping parameters. The main advantages of this method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yongyong Cai , Jingrun Chen , Cheng Wang , Changjian Xie

We revisit the path-integral approach to the wave function of the Universe by utilizing Lefschetz thimble analyses and resurgence theory. The traditional Euclidean path-integral of gravity has the notorious ambiguity of the direction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-17 Masazumi Honda , Hiroki Matsui , Kazumasa Okabayashi , Takahiro Terada

I review results concerning the derivation of effective equations for the dynamics of interacting Fermi gases in a high-density regime of mean-field type. Three levels of effective theories, increasing in precision, can be distinguished:…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Niels Benedikter

We derive mean-field equations for a general class of ferromagnetic spin systems with an explicit error bound in finite volumes. The proof is based on a link between the mean-field equation and the free convolution formalism of random…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 Christian Brennecke , Per von Soosten

The mean-field approximation based on effective interactions or density functionals plays a pivotal role in the description of finite quantum many-body systems that are too large to be treated by ab initio methods. Some examples are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 J. A. Sheikh , J. Dobaczewski , P. Ring , L. M. Robledo , C. Yannouleas