Tuesday, April 17, 2012

1204.3243 (Kurt Langfeld et al.)

The density of states in gauge theories    [PDF]

Kurt Langfeld, Biagio Lucini, Antonio Rago
The density of states is calculated for a SU(2) and a compact U(1) lattice gauge theory using a modified version of the Wang-Landau algorithm. We find that the density of states of the SU(2) gauge theory can be reliably calculated over a range of 120,000 orders of magnitude for lattice sizes as big as 20^4. We demonstrate the potential of the algorithm by reproducing the SU(2) average action, its specific heat and the critical couplings of the weak first order transition in U(1).
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3243

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