23–28 Jun 2014
Columbia University
US/Eastern timezone

The density of states from first principles

27 Jun 2014, 14:35
20m
501 NWC

501 NWC

Talk Nonzero Temperature and Density Nonzero temperature and Density

Speaker

Dr Roberto Pellegrini (College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK)

Description

We present a novel algorithm to compute the density of states, which is proven to converge to the correct result. The algorithm is very general and can be applied to a wide range of models, in the frameworks of statistical mechanics and lattice gauge theory. All the thermal or quantum expectation values can then be obtained by a simple integration of the density of states. As an application, a numerical study of 4d U(1) compact lattice gauge theory is presented.

Primary authors

Dr Antonio Rago (School of Computing & Mathematics, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK) Prof. Biagio Lucini (College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK) Prof. Kurt Langfeld (School of Computing & Mathematics, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK) Dr Roberto Pellegrini (College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK)

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