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In this paper, we investigate a digitised SU$(2)$ lattice gauge theory in the Hamiltonian formalism. We use partitionings to digitise the gauge degrees of freedom and show how to define a penalty term based on finite element methods to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-03-06 Timo Jakobs , Marco Garofalo , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Johann Ostmeyer , Simone Romiti , Carsten Urbach

We investigate the adjoint SU(2) lattice gauge theory in 3+1 dimensions with the Wilson plaquette action modified by a Z(2) monopole suppression term. For the zero-twist sector we report indications for the existence of a finite temperature…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Barresi , G. Burgio , M. Mueller-Preussker

We discuss recently introduced numerical linked-cluster (NLC) algorithms that allow one to obtain temperature-dependent properties of quantum lattice models, in the thermodynamic limit, from exact diagonalization of finite clusters. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-25 Marcos Rigol , Tyler Bryant , Rajiv R. P. Singh

We develop diffusion models for simulating lattice gauge theories, where stochastic quantization is explicitly incorporated as a physical condition for sampling. We demonstrate the applicability of this novel sampler to U(1) gauge theory in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-26 Qianteng Zhu , Gert Aarts , Wei Wang , Kai Zhou , Lingxiao Wang

In this contribution I discuss a recent proposal of a novel action for lattice gauge theory for finite systems, which accommodates non-periodic spatial boundary conditions. Drawing on the summation-by-parts formulation of finite differences…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-09-01 Alexander Rothkopf

In the present work, we propose a scheme for digital formulation of lattice gauge theories with dynamical fermions in 3+1 dimensions. All interactions are obtained as a stroboscopic sequence of two-body interactions with an auxiliary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Julian Bender , Erez Zohar , Alessandro Farace , J. Ignacio Cirac

The geometry of centre vortices is studied in $\mathrm{SU(3)}$ gauge theory at finite temperature to capture the key structural changes that occur through the deconfinement phase transition. Visualisations of the vortex structure in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-08-28 Jackson A. Mickley , Waseem Kamleh , Derek B. Leinweber

Despite the numerous successful applications of lattice QCD in nuclear and particle theory, fundamental algorithmic challenges remain. Among those, relevant for numerical studies of QCD on a space-time torus, is topological freezing--a form…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-07 Michael G. Endres

We present an algorithm to simulate two-dimensional quantum lattice systems in the thermodynamic limit. Our approach builds on the {\em projected entangled-pair state} algorithm for finite lattice systems [F. Verstraete and J.I. Cirac,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Jordan , R. Orus , G. Vidal , F. Verstraete , J. I. Cirac

Resent achievements in statistical theory, namely, a possibility to reproduce almost unlimited Mayer's activity series based on the information about their convergence radius, on the one hand, and generalization of the lattice statistics by…

A quantum simulator of U(1) lattice gauge theories can be implemented with superconducting circuits. This allows the investigation of confined and deconfined phases in quantum link models, and of valence bond solid and spin liquid phases in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 D. Marcos , P. Widmer , E. Rico , M. Hafezi , P. Rabl , U. -J. Wiese , P. Zoller

Simulating non-equilibrium phenomena in strongly-interacting quantum many-body systems, including thermalization, is a promising application of near-term and future quantum computation. By performing experiments on a digital quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Niklas Mueller , Tianyi Wang , Or Katz , Zohreh Davoudi , Marko Cetina

For many quantum systems of interest, the classical computational cost of simulating their time evolution scales exponentially in the system size. At the same time, quantum computers have been shown to allow for simulations of some of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Dorota M. Grabowska , Christopher Kane , Benjamin Nachman , Christian W. Bauer

Using finite temperature SU(3) lattice gauge theory in the fixed scale approach we analyze center properties of the local Polyakov loop L(x). We construct spatial clusters of points x where the phase of L(x) is near the same center element…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-03-26 Gergely Endrodi , Christof Gattringer , Hans-Peter Schadler

We study a three dimensional Z(3)-symmetric effective theory of high temperature QCD. The exact lattice-continuum relations, needed in order to perform lattice simulations with physical parameters, are computed to order O(a^0) in lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-04-14 Aleksi Kurkela

We study the phase diagram of the 4d compact U(1) gauge theory as a function of the number of Euclidean time slices. We use the helicity modulus as order parameter to probe the phase transitions. The order of the transition along the phase…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Michele Vettorazzo , Philippe de Forcrand

Compact U(1) gauge theory in 3+1 dimensions possesses the confining phase, characterized by a linear raise of the potential between particles with opposite electric charges at sufficiently large inter-particle separation. The confinement is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-29 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov , A. S. Tanashkin

We study the machine learning techniques applied to the lattice gauge theory's critical behavior, particularly to the confinement/deconfinement phase transition in the SU(2) and SU(3) gauge theories. We find that the neural network, trained…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-01-20 D. L. Boyda , M. N. Chernodub , N. V. Gerasimeniuk , V. A. Goy , S. D. Liubimov , A. V. Molochkov

Two cluster algorithms, based on constructing and flipping loops, are presented for worldline quantum Monte Carlo simulations of fermions and are tested on the one-dimensional repulsive Hubbard model. We call these algorithms the loop-flip…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kawashima , J. E. Gubernatis , H. G. Evertz

Numerical simulations have become an important tool to understand and predict non-perturbative phenomena in particle physics. In this article we attempt to present a general overview over the field. First, the basic concepts of lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-12-17 F. Karsch , E. Laermann