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Hauptverfasser: Lawrence, Scott, Yamauchi, Yukari
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Veröffentlicht: 2023
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13002
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author Lawrence, Scott
Yamauchi, Yukari
author_facet Lawrence, Scott
Yamauchi, Yukari
contents We discuss various formal aspects of contour deformations used to alleviate sign problems; most importantly, relating these contour deformations to a certain convex optimization problem. As a consequence of this connection we describe a general method for proving upper bounds on the average phase achievable by the contour deformation method. Using this method we show that Abelian lattice Yang-Mills in two spacetime dimensions possesses, for many values of the complex coupling, an exponential sign problem that cannot be removed via any contour deformation.
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spellingShingle Convex optimization and contour deformations
Lawrence, Scott
Yamauchi, Yukari
High Energy Physics - Lattice
We discuss various formal aspects of contour deformations used to alleviate sign problems; most importantly, relating these contour deformations to a certain convex optimization problem. As a consequence of this connection we describe a general method for proving upper bounds on the average phase achievable by the contour deformation method. Using this method we show that Abelian lattice Yang-Mills in two spacetime dimensions possesses, for many values of the complex coupling, an exponential sign problem that cannot be removed via any contour deformation.
title Convex optimization and contour deformations
topic High Energy Physics - Lattice
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13002