Langevin Simulation of the Chirally Decomposed Sine-Gordon Model

Details Langevin Simulation of the Chirally Decomposed Sine-Gordon Model Langevin Simulation of the Chirally Decomposed Sine-Gordon Model

2005-01-31

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0501737v1

Phys.Rev. E72 (2005) 016125

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.72.016125

A large class of quantum and statistical field theoretical models, encompassing relevant condensed matter and non-abelian gauge systems, are defined in terms of complex actions. As the ordinary Monte-Carlo methods are useless in dealing with these models, alternative computational strategies have been proposed along the years. The Langevin technique, in particular, is known to be frequently plagued with difficulties such as strong numerical instabilities or subtle ergodic behavior. Regarding the chirally decomposed version of the sine-Gordon model as a prototypical case for the failure of the Langevin approach, we devise a truncation prescription in the stochastic differential equations which yields numerical stability and is assumed not to spoil the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. This conjecture is supported by a finite size scaling analysis, whereby a massive phase ending at a line of critical points is clearly observed for the truncated stochastic model.

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