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

Monte Carlo methods in continuous time for lattice Hamiltonians

Jul 26, 2016, 4:50 PM
20m
Building 67 Room 1007 (Highfield Campus, University of Southampton)

Building 67 Room 1007

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

Talk Algorithms and Machines Algorithms and Machines

Speaker

Ms Emilie Huffman (Duke University)

Description

We solve a variety of sign problems for models in lattice field theory using the Hamiltonian formulation, including Yukawa models and simple lattice gauge theories. The solutions emerge naturally in continuous time and use the dual representation for the bosonic fields. These solutions allow us to construct quantum Monte Carlo methods for these problems. The methods could provide an alternative approach to understanding non-perturbative dynamics of some lattice field theories.

Primary authors

Ms Emilie Huffman (Duke University) Dr Shailesh Chandrasekharan (Duke University)

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