[RIKEN Seminar] Sparse modeling approach to obtaining the shear viscosity from smeared correlation functions

by Etsuko Itou (Keio University, Japan)

Thursday 14 May 2020, 09:00 → 11:00 US/Eastern

We propose the sparse modeling method to estimate the spectral
function from the smeared correlation functions.
We give a description of how to obtain the shear viscosity from the
correlation function of the renormalized
energy-momentum tensor (EMT) measured by the gradient flow method
($C(t,\tau)$) for the quenched QCD at  finite temperature.
The measurement of the renormalized EMT in the gradient flow method
reduces a statistical uncertainty
thanks to its property of the smearing.
However, the smearing breaks the sum rule of the spectral function and
the over-smeared data in the correlation function
may have to be eliminated from the analyzing process of physical observables.
In this work, we demonstrate that the sparse modeling analysis in the
intermediate-representation basis (IR basis),
which connects between the Matsubara frequency data and real frequency data.
It works well even using  very limited data of $C(t,\tau)$ only in the
fiducial window of the gradient flow.
We utilize the ADMM algorithm which is useful to solve the LASSO
problem under some constraints.
We show that the obtained spectral function reproduces the input
smeared correlation function at finite flow-time.
Several systematic and statistical errors and the flow-time dependence
are also discussed.