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

Alleviating the sign problem with contour deformations in heavy-dense QCD

30 Jul 2026, 15:20
20m
Thurgood Marshall (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Thurgood Marshall

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk QCD at nonzero temperature and density QCD at nonzero temperature and density

Speaker

Emmanuel Ortiz Pacheco (Eötvös Loránd University)

Description

We investigate contour deformation strategies for alleviating the finite-density sign problem in the heavy-dense limit of QCD in two, three, and four dimensions. To reduce the number of integration variables, we work in Polyakov gauge and consider complex deformations of the Polyakov loop eigenvalues. We study approaches based on holomorphic flow equations as well as numerical optimization, using the average phase as the primary diagnostic for the severity of the sign problem. We find that both approaches can considerably alleviate the sign problem in heavy-dense QCD.

Authors

Emmanuel Ortiz Pacheco (Eötvös Loránd University) Dávid Pesznyák (Eötvös Loránd University) Prof. Attila Pásztor (Eötvös Loránd University)

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