Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2010-08-30
JHEP 1101:018,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
17 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables
Scientific paper
10.1007/JHEP01(2011)018
We explore the sign problem in strongly coupled lattice QED with one flavor of Wilson fermions in four dimensions using the fermion bag formulation. We construct rules to compute the weight of a fermion bag and show that even though the fermions are confined into bosons, fermion bags with negative weights do exist. By classifying fermion bags as either simple or complex, we find numerical evidence that complex bags with positive and negative weights come with almost equal probabilities and this leads to a severe sign problem. On the other hand simple bags mostly have a positive weight. Since the complex bags almost cancel each other, we suggest that eliminating them from the partition function may be a good approximation. This modified partition function suffers only from a mild sign problem. We also find a simpler model which does not suffer from any sign problem and may still be a good approximation at small and intermediate values of the hopping parameter. We also prove that when the hopping parameter is strictly infinite all fermion bags are non-negative.
Chandrasekharan Shailesh
Li Anyi
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