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A nonperturbative lattice study of QCD at finite chemical potential is complicated due to the complex fermion determinant and the sign problem. Here we apply the method of stochastic quantization and complex Langevin dynamics to this…

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Quantum electrodynamics in 2+1-dimensions (QED$_3$) is a strongly coupled conformal field theory (CFT) of a U(1) gauge field coupled to $2N$ two-component massless fermions. The $N=2$ CFT has been proposed as a ground state of the spin-1/2…

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The infamous sign problem makes it impossible to probe dense (baryon density $\mu_B>0$) QCD at temperatures near or below the deconfinement threshold. As a workaround, one can explore QCD-like theories such as two-colour QCD (QC2D) which…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-11 Dale Lawlor , Simon Hands , Seyong Kim , Jon-Ivar Skullerud

We examine the behavior of sound attenuation and bulk viscosity near the 2'nd order QCD phase transition at finite density. A dynamical model is presented describing the coupled evolution of sound mode and a slow mode of fluctuations.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 B. O. Kerbikov

We study the phase structure of lattice QCD with heavy quarks at finite temperature and density by a histogram method. We determine the location of the critical point at which the first-order deconfining transition in the heavy-quark limit…

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The quantum mechanical ground state of electrons is described by Density Functional Theory, which leads to large minimization problems. An efficient minimization method uses a selfconsistent field (SCF) solution of large eigenvalue…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Claus Bendtsen , Ole H. Nielsen , Lars B. Hansen

We discuss the prospects of performing high-order perturbative calculations in systems characterized by a vanishing temperature but finite density. In particular, we show that the determination of generic Feynman integrals containing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Ioan Ghisoiu , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Paul Romatschke , Matias Säppi , Aleksi Vuorinen

We study the phase diagram of dense quark matter with an emphasis on the role of the strange quark mass. Our approach is based on two effective field theories (EFTs). The first is an EFT that describes quark quasi-particles near the Fermi…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Thomas Schaefer

In the absence of a genuine solution to the sign problem, lattice studies at imaginary quark chemical potential are an important tool to constrain the QCD phase diagram. We calculate the values of the tricritical quark masses in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-23 Owe Philipsen , Alessandro Sciarra

Quantum key distribution (QKD) has emerged as a promising solution to protect current cryptographic systems against the threat of quantum computers. As QKD transitions from laboratories to real-world applications, its implementation under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Hashir Kuniyil , Saif Al-Kuwari , Asad Ali , Artur Czerwinski , Syed M. Arslan

We consider the scaling behavior of circuit complexity under quantum quench in an a relativistic fermion field theory on a one dimensional spatial lattice. This is done by finding an exactly solvable quench protocol which asymptotes to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 Sinong Liu

In these lectures we provide an introduction to the theory of QCD at very high baryon density. We begin with a review of some aspects of quantum many-body system that are relevant in the QCD context. We also provide a brief review of QCD…

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Quantum communication theory explores the implications of quantum mechanics to the tasks of information transmission. Many physical channels can be formally described as quantum Gaussian operations acting on bosonic quantum states.…

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A new method to extract the density of partition function zeroes (a continuous function) from their distribution for finite lattices (a discrete data set) is presented. This allows direct determination of the order and strength of phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wolfhard Janke , Ralph Kenna

We elaborate on previous results concerning the positivity of the Euclidean path integral measure for low-energy modes in dense fermionic matter. We show that the sign problem usually associated with fermions is absent if one considers only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Deog Ki Hong , Stephen D. H. Hsu

We determine the fermion mass dependence of Euclidean finite volume partition functions for three-dimensional QCD in the epsilon-regime directly from the effective field theory of the pseudo-Goldstone modes by using zero-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Richard J. Szabo

We discuss the Fermion sign problem and, by examining a very general Hubbard-Stratonovich (HS) transformation, argue that the sign problem cannot be solved with such methods. We propose a different kind of transformation which, while not…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-11 Ghassan George Batrouni , Philippe de Forcrand

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) introduced us to the notion that a causal diamond in space-time corresponded to a subsystem of a quantum mechanical system defined on the global space-time. Work by Jacobson\cite{ted95}, Fischler and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 T. Banks

We utilize lattice simulations of the dimensionally reduced effective field theory (EQCD) to determine the quark number susceptibility of QCD at high temperature ($T>2T_c$). We also use analytic continuation to obtain results at finite…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Ari Hietanen , Kari Rummukainen