Published April 2021 | Version v1
Journal article

Topological susceptibility of pure gauge theory using density of states

  • 1. Department of Physics, Wuppertal University, Gaussstr. 20, D-42119 Wuppertal (Germany)
  • 2. University of Graz, Institute for Physics, A-8010 Graz (Austria)
  • 3. Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich (Germany)

Description

The topological susceptibility of the SU(3) pure gauge theory is calculated in the deconfined phase at temperatures up to 10Tc. At such large temperatures the susceptibility is suppressed, topologically non-trivial configurations are extremely rare. Thus, direct lattice simulations are not feasible. The density of states (DoS) method is designed to simulate rare events, we present an application of the DoS method to the problem of high temperature topological susceptibility. We reconstruct the histogram of the charge sectors that one could have obtained in a naive importance sampling. Our findings are perfectly consistent with a free instanton gas.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136148

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136148;
PII
S0370269321000885;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
815
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
54083372
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DENSITY OF STATES; DESIGN; GAUGE INVARIANCE; INSTANTONS; LATTICE FIELD THEORY; SAMPLING; TOPOLOGY
Descriptors DEC
CONSTRUCTIVE FIELD THEORY; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUASI PARTICLES; SIMULATION

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Copyright (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.