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The Hubbard model has often been studied with exact diagonalization (ED). This impurity solver is fundamentally limited by the exponential scaling of the Fock space. To address this problem, we introduce Monte Carlo diagonalization. Using a…
Fractional strings in the spectrum of states of open strings attached to a multiply wound D-brane is explained. We first describe the fractional string states in the low-energy effective theory where the topology of multiple winding is…
An alternative model of the fragmentation of the Lund string, investigating the hypothesis of helix-like ordered gluon field, is compared with hadronic $Z^0$ data. A significant improvement in the description of various measured quantities…
Pre-calculated libraries of molecular fragment configurations have previously been used as a basis for both equilibrium sampling (via "library-based Monte Carlo") and for obtaining absolute free energies using a polymer-growth formalism.…
The parton model for semileptonic B meson decays is studied with special attention to the decay distributions. We find that the spectra show dramatic variations when we introduce cuts on the hadronic energy or invariant mass of hadrons.…
We present a concise way to calculate force for Hybrid Monte Carlo with improved actions using the fact that changes in thin and smeared link matrices lie in their respective tangent vector spaces. Since hypercubic smearing schemes are very…
We present an algorithm for measurement of the Green's function in the hybridization expansion continuous-time quantum Monte-Carlo based on continuous estimators. Compared to the standard method, the present algorithm has similar or better…
The Holstein model of spinless fermions interacting with dispersionless phonons in one dimension is studied by a Green's function Monte Carlo technique. The ground state energy, first fermionic excited state, density wave correlations, and…
The uncertainty in the absolute value of the air-fluorescence yield still puts a severe limit on the accuracy in the primary energy of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The precise measurement of this parameter in laboratory is in turn…
We calculate the equation of state of neutron matter at zero temperature by means of the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method (AFDMC) combined with a fixed-phase approximation. The calculation of the energy is carried out by…
We revisit the extraction of parton-to-eta meson fragmentation functions at next-to-leading order accuracy in QCD in the light of the recent hadroproduction measurements in proton-proton collisions obtained by the PHENIX, LHCb, and ALICE…
Divergences that occur in density matrices of decay and scattering processes are shown to be regularized by tracing and unitarity or the optical theorem. These divergences are regularized by the lifetime of the decaying particle or the…
As an extension of the former study on 2-dimensional systems, we simulate phase behavior of polymer-grafted colloidal particles in 3 dimensions by molecular Monte Carlo technique in the canonical ensemble. We use a spherically symmetric…
In this work we compare Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of electron transport properties with reflection electron energy loss measurements in diamond and graphite films. We assess the impact of different approximations of the dielectric…
The Cosmic Ray Albedo Neutron Decay (CRAND) is believed to be the principal mechanism for the formation of inner proton radiation belt -- at least for relatively higher energy particles. We implement this mechanism in a Monte Carlo…
We present a new preliminary measurement of the b quark fragmentation function in Z0 decays using a novel kinematic B hadron energy reconstruction technique. The measurement is performed using 150,000 hadronic Z0 events recorded in the SLD…
We calculate ground-state properties of a many-quark system in the string-flip model using variational Monte Carlo methods. The many-body potential energy of the system is determined by finding the optimal grouping of quarks into hadrons.…
Many strongly correlated states, such as those arising in the fractional quantum Hall effect and spin liquids, are described by wave functions obtained by dividing particles into multiple clusters, constructing a readily evaluable wave…
Strong decay probabilities are calculated using the Lorentz contracted wave functions of decay products, determined in the arbitrary dynamical scheme with the instantaneous interaction. It is shown that the decay width obtains an additional…
We study the decay of high spin mesons using the gauge/string theory correspondence. The rate of the process is calculated by studying the splitting of a macroscopic string intersecting a D-brane. The result is applied to the decay of…