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Complex Langevin simulations are an attempt to solve the sign (or complex-action) problem encountered in various physical systems of interest. The method is based on a complexification of the underlying degrees of freedom and an evolution…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-04-08 Michael W. Hansen , Michael Mandl , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

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

We derive a family of correctness conditions for complex Langevin simulations. In particular, we show that if in a given theory the expectation values of all observables within a particular space satisfy the theory's Schwinger-Dyson…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-11 Michael Mandl , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

In our previous paper [JHEP 10 (2020) 144], we found that the complex Langevin (CL) method works for QCD at finite density on the $16^3 \times 32$ lattice in the low-temperature high-density regime within the range $\mu / T = 1.6 - 9.6$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-10-28 Shoichiro Tsutsui , Yuhma Asano , Yuta Ito , Hideo Matsufuru , Yusuke Namekawa , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki , Asato Tsuchiya

In the complex Langevin approach to lattice simulations at nonzero density, zeroes of the fermion determinant lead to a meromorphic drift and hence a need to revisit the theoretical derivation. We discuss how poles in the drift affect the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-10 Gert Aarts , Erhard Seiler , Denes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

The complex Langevin method is a leading candidate for solving the so-called sign problem occurring in various physical situations. Its most vexing problem is that in some cases it produces `convergence to the wrong limit'. In the first…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-27 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James , Erhard Seiler , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

The sign problem appears in lattice QCD as soon as a non-zero chemical potential is introduced. This prevents direct simulations to determine the phase structure of the strongly interacting matter. Complex Langevin methods have been…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger

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

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

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

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

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

Lattice results, kinematical constraints and QCD dispersion relations are combined for the first time to derive model-independent bounds for QCD form factors and corresponding rates. To take into account the error bars on the lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Laurent Lellouch

In the numerical simulation of certain field theoretical models, the complex Langevin simulation has been believed to fail due to the violation of ergodicity. We give a detailed analysis of this problem based on a toy model with one degree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Fujimura , K. Okano , L. Schülke , K. Yamagishi , B. Zheng

We present a simulation strategy for the real-time dynamics of quantum fields, inspired by reinforcement learning. It builds on the complex Langevin approach, which it amends with system specific prior information, a necessary prerequisite…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-10-13 Daniel Alvestad , Alexander Rothkopf , Dénes Sexty

Recently the complex Langevin method (CLM) has been attracting attention as a solution to the sign problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo calculations when the effective Boltzmann weight is not real positive. An undesirable feature of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-06-13 Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

The complex Langevin method is a promising approach to the complex-action problem based on a fictitious time evolution of complexified dynamical variables under the influence of a Gaussian noise. Although it is known to have a restricted…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-01-04 Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

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 study complex Langevin simulations of a toy model as well as QCD, supplemented with a dynamical stabilization (DS) term, which was proposed to regularize the complexified process at lower temperatures. We compare the results to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-06-03 Michael W. Hansen , Dénes Sexty

QCD at non-zero chemical potential ($\mu$) for quark number has a complex fermion determinant and thus standard simulation methods for lattice QCD cannot be applied. We therefore simulate this theory using the Complex-Langevin algorithm…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-10-22 D. K. Sinclair , J. B. Kogut