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Simulating strongly coupled gauge theories at finite temperature and density is a longstanding challenge in nuclear and high-energy physics that also has fundamental implications for condensed matter physics. In this work, we use minimally…

We study the deconfinement phase transition and monopole properties in the finite temperature 3D compact Abelian gauge model on the lattice. We predict the critical coupling as function of the lattice size in a simplified model to describe…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 M. N. Chernodub , E. -M. Ilgenfritz , A. Schiller

Motivated by questions about the QCD deconfining phase transition, we studied in two previous papers Model A (Glauber) dynamics of 2D and 3D Potts models, focusing on structure factor evolution under heating (heating in the gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexei Bazavov , Bernd A. Berg , Alexander Velytsky

Off-equilibrium dynamics of a three-dimensional lattice model with nearest- and next nearest-neighbors exclusions is studied. At equilibrium, the model undergoes a first-order fluid-solid transition. Non-equilibrium filling, through random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 H. Levit , Z. Rotman , E. Eisenberg

Higher-form symmetries act on sub-dimensional spatial manifolds of a quantum system. They can emerge as an exact symmetry at low energies even when they are explicitly broken at the microscopic level, making them difficult to characterize.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Yu-Jie Liu , Wen-Tao Xu , Frank Pollmann , Michael Knap

We numerically study $\mathbb{Z}_N$ lattice gauge theories in 4D as prototypical models of systems with $\mathbb{Z}_N$ 1-$\textit{form symmetry}$. For $N \geq 3$, we provide evidence that such systems exhibit not only the expected phases…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-10-14 Jeffrey Giansiracusa , David Lanners , Tin Sulejmanpasic

We investigate the phase diagram and critical properties of a one-dimensional $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ lattice gauge theory describing an orthogonal metal, where spinless fermions and Ising spins are minimally coupled to a deconfined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Bachana Beradze , Mikheil Tsitsishvili , Sergej Moroz

Preparing thermal (Gibbs) states is a common task in physics and computer science. Recent algorithms mimic cooling via system-bath coupling, where the cost is determined by mixing time, akin to classical Metropolis-like algorithms. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 David Gamarnik , Bobak T. Kiani , Alexander Zlokapa

We construct a model of short-range interacting Ising spins on a translationally invariant two-dimensional lattice that mimics a reversible circuit that multiplies or factorizes integers, depending on the choice of boundary conditions. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-09 Lei Zhang , Stefanos Kourtis , Claudio Chamon , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Andrei E. Ruckenstein

Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) form an intriguing class of theories highly relevant to both high-energy particle physics and low-energy condensed matter physics with the rapid development of engineered quantum devices providing new tools to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-22 Rasmus Berg Jensen , Simon Panyella Pedersen , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

Multicanonical ensemble simulations for the simulation of first-order phase transitions suffer from exponential slowing down. Monte Carlo autocorrelation times diverge exponentially with free energy barriers $\Delta F$, which in $L^d$ boxes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Neuhaus , Johannes S. Hager

It is known that fixed boundary conditions modify the leading finite-size corrections for an L^3 lattice in 3d at a first-order phase transition from 1/L^3 to 1/L. We note that an exponential low-temperature phase degeneracy of the form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-17 Marco Mueller , Wolfhard Janke , Desmond A. Johnston

We consider the dynamics of local entropy and nearest neighbor mutual information of a 1-D lattice of qubits via the repeated application of nearest neighbor CNOT quantum gates. This is a quantum version of a cellular automaton. We analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 David Berenstein , Jiayao Zhao

We study lattice cutoff effects on the confinement-deconfinement transition and the $Z_3$ symmetry in $SU(3)$-Higgs theory in $3+1$ dimensions. The Higgs in this study is a complex triplet with vanishing bare mass and quartic coupling. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-09-14 Sanatan Digal , Vinod Mamale , Sabiar Shaikh

In this paper, we study a 3D compact U(1) lattice gauge theory with a variety of nonlocal interactions that simulates the effects of gapless/gapful matter fields. This theory is quite important to investigate the phase structures of QED$_3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-04-05 Gaku Arakawa , Ikuo Ichinose , Tetsuo Matsui , Kazuhiko Sakakibara , Shunsuke Takashima

We have simulated energy relaxation and equilibrium dynamics in Coulomb Glasses using the random energy lattice model. We show that in a temperature range where the Coulomb Gap is already well developed, (T=0.03-0.1) the system still…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kirkengen , J. Bergli

In the present paper we shall study (2+1) dimensional Z_N gauge theories on a lattice. It is shown that the gauge theories have two phases, one is a Higgs phase and the other is a confinement phase. We investigate low-energy excitation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gaku Arakawa , Ikuo Ichinose

Using the Metropolis algorithm, we simulate the relaxation process of the three-dimensional kinetic Ising model. Starting from a random initial configuration, we first present the average equilibration time across the entire phase boundary.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-27 Xiaobing Li , Ranran Guo , Mingmei Xu , Jinghua Fu , Lizhu Chen , Yu Zhou , Yuanfang Wu

The emergence of order and geometric limit shapes in a three-dimensional (3D) Coulomb phase subject to domain wall boundary conditions (DWBC) is investigated. While the arctic circle phenomenon -- the spatial segregation of frozen and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-02 Benjamin Canals

In this paper we investigate the Hamiltonian dynamics of a lattice gauge model in three spatial dimension. Our model Hamiltonian is defined on the basis of a continuum version of a duality transformation of a three dimensional Ising model.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-21 Giulio Pettini , Matteo Gori , Roberto Franzosi , Cecilia Clementi , Marco Pettini