New linearization and reweighting for simulations of string sigma-model on the lattice

Oct 15, 2019
27 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 01 (2020) 174
  • Published: Jan 28, 2020
e-Print:
Report number:
  • HU-EP-19/29,
  • Imperial-TP-EV-2019-04

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Abstract: (Springer)
We study the discretized worldsheet of Type IIB strings in the Gubser-Klebanov-Polyakov background in a new setup, which eliminates a complex phase previously detected in the fermionic determinant. A sign ambiguity remains, which a study of the fermionic spectrum shows to be related to Yukawa-like terms, including those present in the original Lagrangian before the linearization standard in a lattice QFT approach. Monte Carlo simulations are performed in a large region of the parameter space, where the sign problem starts becoming severe and instabilities appear due to the zero eigenvalues of the fermionic operator. To face these problems, simulations are conducted using the absolute value of a fermionic Pfaffian obtained introducing a small twisted-mass term, acting as an infrared regulator, into the action. The sign of the Pfaffian and the low modes of the quadratic fermionic operator are then taken into account by a reweighting procedure of which we discuss the impact on the measurement of the observables. In this setup we study bosonic and fermionic correlators and observe a divergence in the latter, which we argue — also via a one-loop analysis in lattice perturbation theory — to originate from the U(1)-breaking of our Wilson-like discretization for the fermionic sector.
Note:
  • v1: 9 figures, 27 pages of which the first 9 overlap with Proceedings in arxiv:1702.02005; v2: cosmetic modification of one plot; v3: it matches the version published in JHEP (modified introduction and abstract)
  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • Integrable Field Theories
  • Lattice Quantum Field Theory
  • Wilson, ’t Hooft and Polyakov loops
  • fermion: operator
  • fermion: correlation function
  • fermion: determinant
  • string: Green-Schwarz
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
  • lattice field theory