Fermion bag approach to the sign problem in strongly coupled lattice QED with Wilson fermions

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2011)018zbMATH Open1214.81175arXiv1008.5146MaRDI QIDQ544322FDOQ544322

Authors: Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Anyi Li 

Publication date: 14 June 2011

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explore the sign problem in strongly coupled lattice QED with one flavor of Wilson fermions in four dimensions using the fermion bag formulation. We construct rules to compute the weight of a fermion bag and show that even though the fermions are confined into bosons, fermion bags with negative weights do exist. By classifying fermion bags as either simple or complex, we find numerical evidence that complex bags with positive and negative weights come with almost equal probabilities and this leads to a severe sign problem. On the other hand simple bags mostly have a positive weight. Since the complex bags almost cancel each other, we suggest that eliminating them from the partition function may be a good approximation. This modified partition function suffers only from a mild sign problem. We also find a simpler model which does not suffer from any sign problem and may still be a good approximation at small and intermediate values of the hopping parameter. We also prove that when the hopping parameter is strictly infinite all fermion bags are non-negative.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.5146

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zbMATH Keywords

lattice gauge field theorieslattice QCDlattice quantum field theoryQCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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