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arxiv 1205.5500 v2 pith:5EGTMROR submitted 2012-05-24 hep-lat cond-mat.stat-mechphysics.comp-ph

A subset solution to the sign problem in random matrix simulations

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We present a solution to the sign problem in dynamical random matrix simulations of a two-matrix model at nonzero chemical potential. The sign problem, caused by the complex fermion determinants, is solved by gathering the matrices into subsets, whose sums of determinants are real and positive even though their cardinality only grows linearly with the matrix size. A detailed proof of this positivity theorem is given for an arbitrary number of fermion flavors. We performed importance sampling Monte Carlo simulations to compute the chiral condensate and the quark number density for varying chemical potential and volume. The statistical errors on the results only show a mild dependence on the matrix size and chemical potential, which confirms the absence of sign problem in the subset method. This strongly contrasts with the exponential growth of the statistical error in standard reweighting methods, which was also analyzed quantitatively using the subset method. Finally, we show how the method elegantly resolves the Silver Blaze puzzle in the microscopic limit of the matrix model, where it is equivalent to QCD.

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