We have developed a Hartree-Fock theory for electrons on a honeycomb lattice aiming to solve a long-standing problem of the Fermi velocity renormalization in graphene. Our model employs no fitting ...parameters (like an unknown band cutoff) but relies on a topological invariant (crystal structure function) that makes the Hartree-Fock sublattice spinor independent of the electron-electron interaction. Agreement with the experimental data is obtained assuming static self-screening including local field effects. As an application of the model, we derive an explicit expression for the optical conductivity and discuss the renormalization of the Drude weight. The optical conductivity is also obtained via precise quantum Monte Carlo calculations which compares well to our mean-field approach.
We study the machine learning techniques applied to the lattice gauge theory's critical behavior, particularly to the confinement/deconfinement phase transition in the SU(2) and SU(3) gauge theories. ...We find that the neural network, trained on lattice configurations of gauge fields at an unphysical value of the lattice parameters as an input, builds up a gauge-invariant function, and finds correlations with the target observable that is valid in the physical region of the parameter space. In particular, we show that the algorithm may be trained to build up the Polyakov loop which serves an order parameter of the deconfining phase transition. The machine learning techniques can thus be used as a numerical analog of the analytical continuation from easily accessible but physically uninteresting regions of the coupling space to the interesting but potentially not accessible regions.
We propose and test a new approach to computation of canonical partition functions in lattice QCD at finite density. We suggest a few steps procedure. We first compute numerically the quark number ...density for imaginary chemical potential iμqI. Then we restore the grand canonical partition function for imaginary chemical potential using the fitting procedure for the quark number density. Finally we compute the canonical partition functions using high precision numerical Fourier transformation. Additionally we compute the canonical partition functions using the known method of the hopping parameter expansion and compare results obtained by two methods in the deconfining as well as in the confining phases. The agreement between two methods indicates the validity of the new method. Our numerical results are obtained in two flavor lattice QCD with clover improved Wilson fermions.
We report Lee-Yang zeros behavior at finite temperature and density. The quark number densities, 〈n〉, are calculated at the pure imaginary chemical potential iμqI, where no sign problem occurs. Then, ...the canonical partition functions, ZC(n,T,V), up to some maximal values of n are estimated through fitting theoretically motivated functions to 〈n〉, which are used to compute the Lee-Yang zeros. We study the temperature dependence of the distributions of the Lee-Yang zeros around the pseudo-critical temperature region T/Tc=0.84-1.35.
In the distributions of the Lee-Yang zeros, we observe the Roberge-Weiss phase transition at T/Tc≥1.20. We discuss the dependence of the behaviors of Lee-Yang zeros on the maximal value of n, so that we can estimate a reliable infinite volume limit.
A novel approach to the problem of deriving the generating functional for the canonical ensemble in lattice QCD at a nonzero chemical potential is proposed. The derivation proceeds in several steps. ...First, the baryon density for imaginary values of the chemical potential is obtained. Then, again for imaginary values of the chemical potential, the generating functional of the grand canonical ensemble is derived. In this analysis, a fit of baryon density is employed toward simplifying the procedure of numerical integration. Finally, the generating potential for the canonical ensemble is derived using a high-precision numerical Fourier transform. The generating functional for the canonical ensemble is also derived using the known hopping-parameter expansion, and the results obtained with the two methods are compared for the deconfinement phase in the lattice QCD with two flavors.
Optical conductivity of graphene is studied using quantum Monte Carlo calculations. We start from a Euclidean current-current correlator and extract sigma( omega ) from Green-Kubo relations using the ...Backus-Gilbert method. Calculations were performed both for long-range interactions and taking into account only the contact term. In both cases we vary interaction strength and study its influence on optical conductivity. We compare our results with previous theoretical calculations choosing omega approximate Kappa , thus working in the region of the plateau in sigma( omega ) which corresponds to optical conductivity of Dirac quasiparticles. No dependence of optical conductivity on interaction strength is observed unless we approach the antiferromagnetic phase transition in the case of an artificially enhanced contact term. Our results strongly support previous theoretical studies that claimed very weak regularization of graphene conductivity.
A hole transport through DNA base sequences was modeled. The fact that DNA consists of two polynucleotide strands was taken into consideration. Specific DNA base locations are determined in the ...model. The model predicts the behavior of a hole acting on the DNA chain, taking into account reversible and irreversible dynamics. It was shown that the transfer mechanisms depend on the sequence type and can be either of hopping nature or of superexchange one. Distance dependence of the hole transport relative rate on the number of hopping steps was investigated. The results obtained were compared with the experimental data. The investigation demonstrates the utilization of the formalism in practical problems for description of the charge migration through the different molecular sequences.
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•The hole transport through DNA base sequences was modeled.•The hopping and superexchange transfer mechanisms were discussed.•The reversible and irreversible dynamics of the hole were described.•Distance dependence of the hole transport relative rate was investigated.
We simulate lattice QCD with two flavors of Wilson fermions at imaginary baryon chemical potential. Results for the baryon number density computed in the confining and deconfining phases at imaginary ...baryon chemical potential are used to determine the baryon number density and higher cumulants at the real chemical potential via analytical continuation.
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are recently discovered materials, which low energy electronic spectrum is described by two flavours of massless 3+1D fermions. In order to study electronic ...properties of these materials we formulated lattice field theory with rooted staggered fermions on anisotropic lattice. It is shown that in the limit of zero temporal lattice spacing this theory reproduces effective theory of Dirac semimetals. Using the lattice field theory we study the phase diagram of Dirac semimetals in the plane effective coupling constant - Fermi velocity anisotropy. We also measure conductivity of Dirac Semimetals within lattice field theory in external magnetic field. Our results confirm the existence of Chiral Magnetic Effect in Dirac Semimetals.