26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation from uncertain Euclidean correlation functions

27 Jul 2026, 14:40
20m
Pyon Su (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Pyon Su

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk Quark and lepton flavor physics Quark and lepton flavor physics

Speaker

Sarah Fields (Columbia University)

Description

The calculation of inclusive observables remains a significant challenge for lattice QCD, where the inverse problem of relating Euclidean-space data to real-time, multi-particle processes is inherently ill-posed. This work further develops a potential first-principles solution to this inverse problem which uses Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation to determine inclusive decay rates from uncertain data. Here we present a method that begins with uncertain Euclidean space-time correlation function data, which are then Laplace transformed with $O(a^2)$ discretization errors, followed by the Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation described above.

Authors

Sarah Fields (Columbia University) Norman Christ (Columbia University)

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