Examining the analytic structure of Green's functions: massive parallel complex integration using GPUs

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2012.09.003MaRDI QIDQ743341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Windisch, Reinhard Alkofer, Gunfolf Haase, Manfred Liebmann

Publication date 24 September 2014

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0752

zbMATH Keywords

Green's functionGPUanalytic structurecomplex integrationbranch cutCUDA Fortran

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Numerical integration (65D30) Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Fundamental solutions, Green's function methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M80) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-04)

Abstract: Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are employed for a numerical determination of the analytic structure of two-point correlation functions of Quantum Field Theories. These functions are represented through integrals in d-dimensional Euclidean momentum space. Such integrals can in general not be solved analytically, and therefore one has to rely on numerical procedures to extract their analytic structures if needed. After describing the general outline of the corresponding algorithm we demonstrate the procedure by providing a completely worked-out example in four dimensions for which an exact solution exists. We resolve the analytic structure by highly parallel evaluation of the correlation functions momentum space integral in the complex plane. The (logarithmically) divergent integral is regularized by applying a BPHZ-like Taylor subtraction to the integrand. We find perfect agreement with the exact solution. The fact that each point in the complex plane does not need any information from other points makes this a perfect candidate for GPU treatment. A significant gain in speed as compared to sequential execution is obtained. We also provide typical running times on several GPUs.

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Uses Software

• Mathematica
• CUDA

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