Complex Paths Around The Sign Problem

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05436v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:17:07 GMT
• Title: Complex Paths Around The Sign Problem
• Authors: Andrei Alexandru, Gokce Basar, Paulo F. Bedaque and Neill C. Warrington
• Abstract summary: We review a new set of ideas recently developed to tackle the sign problem based on the complexification of field space. The mathematical ideas underpinning this approach, as well as the algorithms so far developed, are described.
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• Abstract: The Monte Carlo evaluation of path integrals is one of a few general purpose methods to approach strongly coupled systems. It is used in all branches of Physics, from QCD/nuclear physics to the correlated electron systems. However, many systems of great importance (dense matter inside neutron stars, the repulsive Hubbard model away from half-filling, dynamical and non-equilibrium observables) are not amenable to the Monte Carlo method as it currently stands due to the so-called "sign-problem". We review a new set of ideas recently developed to tackle the sign problem based on the complexification of field space and the Picard-Lefshetz theory accompanying it. The mathematical ideas underpinning this approach, as well as the algorithms so far developed, are described together with non-trivial examples where the method has already been proved successful. Directions of future work, including the burgeoning use of machine learning techniques, are delineated.

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