Abstract

We consider the one-dimensional massive Thirring model formulated on the lattice with staggered fermions and an auxiliary compact vector (link) field, which is exactly solvable and shows a phase transition with increasing the chemical potential of fermion number: the crossover at a finite temperature and the first order transition at zero temperature. We complexify its path-integration on Lefschetz thimbles and examine its phase transition by hybrid Monte Carlo simulations on the single dominant thimble. We observe a discrepancy between the numerical and exact results in the crossover region for small inverse coupling $\beta$ and/or large lattice size $L$, while they are in good agreement at the lower and higher density regions. We also observe that the discrepancy persists in the continuum limit keeping the temperature finite and it becomes more significant toward the low-temperature limit. This numerical result is consistent with our analytical study of the model's thimble structure. And these results imply that the contributions of subdominant thimbles should be summed up in order to reproduce the first order transition in the low-temperature limit.

Highlights

  • In [1] we studied the Lefschetz thimble integration method for the one-dimensional Thirring model numerically based on the HMC algorithm proposed in ref. [2], and concluded that the numerical integration by picking up just a single dominant thimble fails to reproduce the exact result in the crossover region for the smaller β, while it works for the larger β

  • The authors found a simple bug in implementing the HMC algorithm constrained on a thimble in this model, i.e., in solving eq (3.3) in [1], which may cause some inaccuracy of our previous simulations

  • We notice some deviations from zero value in the imaginary part because of the reduced error bars, especially around the crossover region for L = 8

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Introduction

The authors found a simple bug in implementing the HMC algorithm constrained on a thimble in this model, i.e., in solving eq (3.3) in [1], which may cause some inaccuracy of our previous simulations. In [1] we studied the Lefschetz thimble integration method for the one-dimensional Thirring model numerically based on the HMC algorithm proposed in ref. [2], and concluded that the numerical integration by picking up just a single dominant thimble fails to reproduce the exact result in the crossover region for the smaller β, while it works for the larger β (rather insensitively to the lattice size L).

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