Stabilizing complex Langevin for real-time gauge theories with an anisotropic kernel

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2023)011arXiv2212.08602MaRDI QIDQ6176293FDOQ6176293

Authors: Kirill Boguslavski, Paul Hotzy, David Müller 

Publication date: 25 July 2023

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

Abstract: The complex Langevin (CL) method is a promising approach to overcome the sign problem that occurs in real-time formulations of quantum field theories. Using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we study SU($N_c$) gauge theories with CL. We observe that current stabilization techniques are insufficient to obtain correct results. Therefore, we revise the discretization of the CL equations on complex time contours, find a time reflection symmetric formulation and introduce a novel anisotropic kernel that enables CL simulations on discretized complex time paths. Applying it to SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in 3+1 dimensions, we obtain unprecedentedly stable results that we validate using additional observables and that can be systematically improved. For the first time, we are able to simulate non-Abelian gauge theory on time contours whose real-time extent exceeds its inverse temperature. Thus, our approach may pave the way towards an ab-initio real-time framework of QCD in and out of equilibrium with a potentially large impact on the phenomenology of heavy-ion collisions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08602

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zbMATH Keywords

lattice QCDnon-equilibrium field theoryalgorithms and theoretical developmentsnon-zero temperature and density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

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