Simulating the all-order hopping expansion. II: Wilson fermions

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.01.018zbMATH Open1194.82025arXiv0812.0677OpenAlexW2018246168MaRDI QIDQ993207FDOQ993207

U. Wolff

Publication date: 10 September 2010

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the extension of the Prokof'ev-Svistunov worm algorithm to Wilson lattice fermions in an external scalar field. We effectively simulate by Monte Carlo the graphs contributing to the hopping expansion of the two-point function on a finite lattice to arbitrary order. Tests are conducted for a constant background field i. e. free fermions at some mass. For the method introduced here this is expected to be a representative case. Its advantage is that we know the exact answers and can thus make stringent tests on the numerics. The approach is formulated in both two and three space-time dimensions. In D=2 Wilson fermions enjoy special positivity properties and the simulation is similarly efficient as in the Ising model. In D=3 the method also works at sufficiently large mass, but there is a hard sign problem in the present formulation hindering us to take the continuum limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0677

zbMATH Keywords

Prokof'ev-Svistunov worm algorithmexternal scalar field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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• Complex Langevin and other approaches to the sign problem in quantum many-body physics
• Fermion bag approach to the sign problem in strongly coupled lattice QED with Wilson fermions
• Ising model as Wilson-Majorana fermions
• A geometric Monte Carlo algorithm for the antiferromagnetic Ising model with ``topological term at \(\theta = \pi\)
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• Simulating the all-order strong coupling expansion. III: \(O(N)\) sigma/loop models
• A factorization algorithm to compute Pfaffians
• The worm process for the Ising model is rapidly mixing
• Hopping expansion as a tool for handling dual variables in lattice models

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