22–28 Jul 2018
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
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Beyond Thimbles: Sign-Optimized Manifolds for Finite Density

23 Jul 2018, 16:30
20m
Centennial (Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center)

Centennial

Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center

219 S Harrison Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824
Nonzero Temperature and Density Nonzero Temperature and Density

Speaker

Scott Lawrence (University of Maryland, College Park)

Description

Fermionic field theories at finite density suffer from a sign problem, making lattice calculations exponentially expensive in the volume. This sign problem can be reduced or eliminated by complexifying configuration space, and integrating over a contour deformed from the real plane. We present an algorithm for determining integration contours with reduced sign problems. We give results from this algorithm for both 1+1 and 2+1 dimensional field theories at finite density.

Primary author

Scott Lawrence (University of Maryland, College Park)

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