October 12, 2026 to November 13, 2026
YITP, Kyoto University
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Phase quenched QCD, or: How to fix the sign problem perturbatively

Not scheduled
1h
Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall (YITP, Kyoto University)

Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall

YITP, Kyoto University

Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, 606-8267
(4th week, Nov. 2-6) Dense QCD Matter and Compact Stars Week 4: Dense QCD Matter and Compact Stars

Speaker

Tyler Gorda (The Ohio State University)

Description

How bad is the sign problem in QCD? It turns out that in the perturbative regime, the sign problem enters at $O(\alpha_s^3)$ in the strong coupling $\alpha_s$ to leading order. In this talk, I explain why the sign problem only enters at such high order, and I present the full $O(\alpha_s^3)$ result for it for all $\mu$ and $T$. I also explain how this result can be combined with future lattice simulations of “Phase quenched QCD” to determine the thermodynamics of deconfined matter to high accuracy.

Authors

Tyler Gorda (The Ohio State University) Pablo Navarrete (University of Helsinki) Risto Paatelainen (University of Helsinki) Leon Sandbote (University of Helsinki) Kaapo Seppänen (University of Helsinki)

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