TY - JOUR
T1 - Classification of sign-problem-free relativistic fermions on the basis of the Majorana positivity
AU - Hayata, Tomoya
AU - Yamamoto, Arata
N1 - Funding Information:
T. H.was supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant No. JP16J02240).A.Y.was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant No. JP15K17624).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s).
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - We classify the sign-problem-free relativistic fermion actions on the basis of the Majorana representation. In the Majorana representation, the sign-problem-free condition is given by the semi-positivity of a Pfaffian. We show that the known sign-problem-free actions of the Dirac fermions, which are usually understood from the semi-positivity of a determinant, e.g., the action of quantum chromodynamics with nonzero chiral chemical potential or nonzero isospin chemical potential, can also be understood from the semi-positivity of a Pfaffian.We also derive new classes of the sign-problem-free relativistic fermion actions with Majorana-type source terms.
AB - We classify the sign-problem-free relativistic fermion actions on the basis of the Majorana representation. In the Majorana representation, the sign-problem-free condition is given by the semi-positivity of a Pfaffian. We show that the known sign-problem-free actions of the Dirac fermions, which are usually understood from the semi-positivity of a determinant, e.g., the action of quantum chromodynamics with nonzero chiral chemical potential or nonzero isospin chemical potential, can also be understood from the semi-positivity of a Pfaffian.We also derive new classes of the sign-problem-free relativistic fermion actions with Majorana-type source terms.
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U2 - 10.1093/ptep/ptx040
DO - 10.1093/ptep/ptx040
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018861631
SN - 2050-3911
VL - 2017
JO - Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
JF - Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 043B08
ER -