Lattice QCD at finite density: An Introductory review

S Muroya, A Nakamura, C Nonaka… - Progress of theoretical …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
This is a pedagogical review of the lattice study of finite density QCD. It is intended to
provide the minimum necessary content, so that it may be used as an introduction for …

Hidden symmetry and quantum phases in spin-3/2 cold atomic systems

C Wu - Modern Physics Letters B, 2006 - World Scientific
Optical traps and lattices provide a new opportunity to study strongly correlated high spin
systems with cold atoms. In this article, we review the recent progress on the hidden …

Model for thermal relic dark matter of strongly interacting massive particles

Y Hochberg, E Kuflik, H Murayama, T Volansky… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
A recent proposal is that dark matter could be a thermal relic of 3→ 2 scatterings in a
strongly coupled hidden sector. We present explicit classes of strongly coupled gauge …

QCD thermal phase transition in the presence of a small chemical potential

CR Allton, S Ejiri, SJ Hands, O Kaczmarek, F Karsch… - Physical Review D, 2002 - APS
We propose a new method to investigate the thermal properties of QCD with a small quark
chemical potential μ. Derivatives of quark and gluonic observables with respect to μ are …

[HTML][HTML] A new method to study lattice QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential

Z Fodor, SD Katz - Physics Letters B, 2002 - Elsevier
Due to the sign problem, it is exponentially difficult to study QCD on the lattice at finite
chemical potential. We propose a method—an overlap improving multi-parameter …

The condensed matter physics of QCD

K Rajagopal, F Wilczek - At The Frontier of Particle Physics …, 2001 - World Scientific
Important progress in understanding the behavior of hadronic matter at high density has
been achieved recently, by adapting the techniques of condensed matter theory. At …

Solving the fermion sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulations by Majorana representation

ZX Li, YF Jiang, H Yao - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We discover a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method to solve the fermion sign problem in
interacting fermion models by employing a Majorana representation of complex fermions …

Meson spectroscopy from spectral densities in lattice gauge theories

E Bennett, L Del Debbio, N Forzano, RC Hill, DK Hong… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Spectral densities encode nonperturbative information that enters the calculation of a
plethora of physical observables in strongly coupled field theories. Phenomenological …

Sufficient condition for absence of the sign problem in the fermionic quantum Monte Carlo algorithm

C Wu, SC Zhang - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2005 - APS
Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations involving fermions have a notorious sign problem.
Some well-known exceptions to the auxiliary field QMC algorithm rely on the factorizibility of …

Lattice studies of the gauge theory with two fundamental and three antisymmetric Dirac fermions

E Bennett, DK Hong, H Hsiao, JW Lee, CJD Lin… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We consider the S p (4) gauge theory coupled to N f= 2 fundamental and nf= 3 antisymmetric
flavors of Dirac fermions in four dimensions. This theory serves as the microscopic origin for …