Model study of the sign problem in the mean-field approximation

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Fukushima, Kenji ^a   Hidaka, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 33846816472     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.036002     Document Type: Article

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