Towards a density of states approach for dense matter systems

2013/10/30 by Kurt Langfeld, Jan Pawlowski, Langfeld, Kurt +7
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-lat #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1310.8231

Talk presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2013), 29 July - 3 August 2013, Mainz, Germany

arxiv created 2013/10/30 · arxiv updated 2013/10/31

Abstract

The density-of-states method (Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 111601) features an exponential error suppression and is not restricted to theories with positive probabilistic weight. It is applied to the SU(2) gauge theory at finite densities of heavy quarks. The key ingredient here is the Polyakov line probability distribution, which is obtained of over 80 orders of magnitude. We briefly address whether the exponential error suppression could be sufficient to simulate theories with a strong sign problem.

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