Speaker
Mr
Alessandro Nada
(Università di Torino & INFN, Torino)
Description
Jarzynski's equality is a well-known result in statistical mechanics, relating free-energy differences between equilibrium ensembles with fluctuations in the work performed during non-equilibrium transformations from one ensemble to the other.
In this talk, an extension of this relation to lattice gauge theory will be presented, along with numerical results for the $Z_2$ gauge model in three dimensions and for the equation of state in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. Then, further applications will be discussed, in particular for the Schroedinger functional and for the study of QCD
in strong magnetic fields.
Primary authors
Mr
Alessandro Nada
(Università di Torino & INFN, Torino)
Ms
Arianna Toniato
(CP3-Origins & Danish IAS, University of Southern Denmark)
Dr
Gianluca Costagliola
(Università di Torino & INFN, Torino)
Prof.
Marco Panero
(Università di Torino & INFN, Torino)
Prof.
Michele Caselle
(Università di Torino & INFN, Torino)
