24–30 Jul 2016
Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

Complex Langevin Dynamics for a Random Matrix Model of QCD at finite density

26 Jul 2016, 15:20
20m
Building 32 Room 1015 (Highfield Campus, University of Southampton)

Building 32 Room 1015

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

Talk Nonzero Temperature and Density Nonzero Temperature and Density

Speaker

Dr Savvas Zafeiropoulos (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Description

We study a Random Matrix Model for QCD at finite density via Complex Langevin dynamics. This model has a phase transition to a phase with non-zero baryon density. We study the convergence of the algorithm as a function of the quark mass and the chemical potential and focus on two main observables: the baryon density and the chiral condensate. As expected, for simulations close to the chiral limit, the algorithm has wrong convergence properties when the quark mass is in the spectral domain of the quenched Dirac operator. Possible solutions of this problem are discussed.

Primary author

Dr Savvas Zafeiropoulos (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Co-authors

Prof. Jacobus Verbaarschot (Stony Brook University) Mr Jonas Glesaeen (Goethe University Frankfurt) Prof. Owe Philipsen (Goethe University Frankfurt)

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