The QCD sign problem and dynamical simulations of random matrices

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bloch, Jacques ^a   Wettig, Tilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lattice QCD; Matrix models

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053164505     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)048     Document Type: Article

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