The density in the density of states method

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2013)192zbMATH Open1342.81679arXiv1308.6712MaRDI QIDQ737722FDOQ737722

Authors: J. Greensite, Joyce C. Myers, K. Splittorff 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: It has been suggested that for QCD at finite baryon density the distribution of the phase angle, i.e. the angle defined as the imaginary part of the logarithm of the fermion determinant, has a simple Gaussian form. This distribution provides the density in the density of states approach to the sign problem. We calculate this phase angle distribution using i) the hadron resonance gas model; and ii) a combined strong coupling and hopping parameter expansion in lattice gauge theory. While the former model leads only to a Gaussian distribution, in the latter expansion we discover terms which cause the phase angle distribution to deviate, by relative amounts proportional to powers of the inverse lattice volume, from a simple Gaussian form. We show that despite the tiny inverse-volume deviation of the phase angle distribution from a simple Gaussian form, such non-Gaussian terms can have a substantial impact on observables computed in the density of states/reweighting approach to the sign problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.6712

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zbMATH Keywords

lattice QCDnonperturbative effectsphase diagram of QCDstrong coupling expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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