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

Scalar QCD at nonzero density

Jul 29, 2016, 3:20 PM
20m
Building 67 Room 1027 (Highfield Campus, University of Southampton)

Building 67 Room 1027

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

Talk Nonzero Temperature and Density Nonzero Temperature and Density

Speaker

Mr Jacob Wellnhofer (Universität Regensburg)

Description

We study scalar QCD at nonzero density in the strong coupling limit. It has a sign problem which looks structurally similar to the one in QCD. After introducing dual variables by integrating out the SU(3) gauge links we find that we need at least 3 flavors for a nontrivial dependence on the chemical potential. In this dual representation there is no sign problem remaining. The dual variables are partially constrained, thus we use a hybrid approach for the updates: For unconstrained variables we use local updates, while for constrained variables we use updates based on the worm algorithm.

Primary authors

Dr Falk Bruckmann (University of Regensburg) Mr Jacob Wellnhofer (Universität Regensburg)

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