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Stochastic quantization offers the opportunity to simulate field theories with a complex action. In some theories unstable trajectories are prevalent when a constant stepsize is employed. We construct algorithms for generating an adaptive…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James , Erhard Seiler , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

In recent years there has been much progress on the investigation of the QCD phase diagram with lattice QCD simulations. In this review I focus on the developments in the last two years. Especially the addition of external influences or new…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-02-17 Jana N. Guenther

We present our latest results on the application of the complex Langevin method to one- and two-dimensional QCD. Although the method is stable, it unfortunately converges to an incorrect result when applied as such. After applying…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-08-24 Jacques Bloch , Johannes Mahr , Sebastian Schmalzbauer

We study the use of the complex-Langevin equation (CLE) to simulate lattice QCD at a finite chemical potential ($\mu$) for quark-number, which has a complex fermion determinant that prevents the use of standard simulation methods based on…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-10-02 J. B. Kogut , D. K. Sinclair

At nonzero chemical potential the numerical sign problem in lattice field theory limits the use of standard algorithms based on importance sampling. Complex Langevin dynamics provides a possible solution, but it has to be applied with care.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-15 Gert Aarts , Lorenzo Bongiovanni , Erhard Seiler , Denes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

We present lattice simulations on the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with two light quark flavours at finite chemical potential $\mu$. To circumvent the sign problem we use the complex Langevin method. In this study, we have…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-03-25 Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger , Felix P. G. Ziegler

We simulate lattice QCD at finite quark-number chemical potential, $\mu$, using the complex-Langevin equation (CLE) with gauge-cooling and adaptive updating to prevent instabilities. The CLE is used because QCD at finite $\mu$ has a complex…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-10-30 D. K. Sinclair , J. B. Kogut

Progress in the application of the complex Langevin method to full QCD at non-zero chemical potential is reported. The method evades the sign problem which makes naive simulations at nonzero density impossible. The procedure 'gauge cooling'…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-22 Denes Sexty

In this paper we test the complex Langevin algorithm for numerical simulations of a random matrix model of QCD with a first order phase transition to a phase of finite baryon density. We observe that a naive implementation of the algorithm…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-04 J. Bloch , J. Glesaaen , J. J. M. Verbaarschot , S. Zafeiropoulos

Simulations of full QCD at nonzero baryon density using light quark masses are presented. The sign problem is evaded by the usage of the complex Langevin equation. The simulations are stabilized by the gauge cooling procedure for small…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-10-24 Denes Sexty

We present new results of full QCD at nonzero chemical potential. In PRD 92, 094516 (2015) the complex Langevin method was shown to break down when the inverse coupling decreases and enters the transition region from the deconfined to the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Jacques Bloch , Olaf Schenk

QCD at finite quark-/baryon-number density, which describes nuclear matter, has a sign problem which prevents direct application of standard simulation methods based on importance sampling. When such finite density is implemented by the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-09 D. K. Sinclair , J. B. Kogut

We study QCD at finite density and low temperature by using the complex Langevin method. We employ the gauge cooling to control the unitarity norm and introduce a deformation parameter in the Dirac operator to avoid the singular-drift…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Keitro Nagata , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

We study the Stephanov model, which is an RMT model for QCD at finite density, using the Complex Langevin algorithm. Naive implementation of the algorithm shows convergence towards the phase quenched or quenched theory rather than to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Jacques Bloch , Jonas Glesaaen , Jacobus Verbaarschot , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

Stationary distributions of complex Langevin equations are shown to be the complexified path integral solutions of the Schwinger-Dyson equations of the associated quantum field theory. Specific examples in zero dimensions and on a lattice…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-26 Gerald Guralnik , Cengiz Pehlevan

The sign problem at nonzero chemical potential prohibits the use of importance sampling in lattice simulations. Since complex Langevin dynamics does not rely on importance sampling, it provides a potential solution. Recently it was shown…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-12 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James , Jan M. Pawlowski , Erhard Seiler , Denes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

The complex Langevin method (CLM) provides a promising way to perform the path integral with a complex action using a stochastic equation for complexified dynamical variables. It is known, however, that the method gives wrong results in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-01 Shinji Shimasaki , Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura

We investigate the QCD phase diagram in the strong-coupling lattice QCD with fluctuation and $1/g^2$ effects by using the auxiliary field Monte-Carlo simulations. The complex phase of the Fermion determinant at finite chemical potential is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-29 Akira Ohnishi , Terukazu Ichihara

We present the results of continuum-extrapolated lattice simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) above the crossover temperature and for unprecedentedly high baryon densities at the physical point, employing the complex Langevin…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-22 Michael Mandl , Dénes Sexty , Daniel Unterhuber

A brief overview of the QCD phase diagram at nonzero temperature and density is provided. It is explained why standard lattice QCD techniques are not immediately applicable for its determination, due to the sign problem. We then discuss a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-02-06 Gert Aarts