Complex Langevin calculations in QCD at finite density
Jul 17, 2020
19 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 10 (2020) 144
- Published: Oct 22, 2020
e-Print:
- 2007.08778 [hep-lat]
Report number:
- KEK-TH-2230,
- RIKEN-QHP-479
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Abstract: (Springer)
We demonstrate that the complex Langevin method (CLM) enables calculations in QCD at finite density in a parameter regime in which conventional methods, such as the density of states method and the Taylor expansion method, are not applicable due to the severe sign problem. Here we use the plaquette gauge action with β = 5.7 and four-flavor staggered fermions with degenerate quark mass ma = 0.01 and nonzero quark chemical potential μ. We confirm that a sufficient condition for correct convergence is satisfied for μ/T = 5.2 − 7.2 on a 8 × 16 lattice and μ/T = 1.6 − 9.6 on a 16 × 32 lattice. In particular, the expectation value of the quark number is found to have a plateau with respect to μ with the height of 24 for both lattices. This plateau can be understood from the Fermi distribution of quarks, and its height coincides with the degrees of freedom of a single quark with zero momentum, which is 3 (color) × 4 (flavor) × 2 (spin) = 24. Our results may be viewed as the first step towards the formation of the Fermi sphere, which plays a crucial role in color superconductivity conjectured from effective theories.Note:
- 17 pages, 4 figures; published version
- Lattice QCD
- Phase Diagram of QCD
- density: finite
- quark: mass
- color: superconductivity
- potential: chemical
- fermion: staggered
- lattice
- quantum chromodynamics
- Taylor expansion
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