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Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Professor of Physics
Physics
Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
Science Drive, 253, Physics/Math Bldg., Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Transverse field γ -matrix spin chains

Journal Article Physical Review D · November 1, 2024 We introduce a simple lattice spin model that is written in terms of the well-known four-dimensional γ-matrix representation of the Clifford algebra. The local spins with a four-dimensional Hilbert space transform in a spinorial (1/2,0) (0,1/2) representat ... Full text Cite

Worldline Monte Carlo method for few-body nuclear physics

Journal Article Physical Review C · August 1, 2024 In this work we introduce a worldline-based fermion Monte Carlo algorithm for studying few body quantum mechanics of self-interacting fermions in the Hamiltonian lattice formulation. Our motivation to construct the method comes from our interest in studyin ... Full text Cite

Asymptotic Freedom at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition without Fine-Tuning Using a Qubit Regularization.

Journal Article Physical review letters · January 2024 We propose a two-dimensional hard-core loop-gas model as a way to regularize the asymptotically free massive continuum quantum field theory that emerges at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. Without fine-tuning, our model can reproduce the uni ... Full text Cite

Phases of 2d massless QCD with qubit regularization

Preprint Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology · December 29, 2023 Full text Cite

Erratum: Quantum Criticality of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity with Relativity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117202 (2022)].

Journal Article Physical review letters · September 2023 This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.117202. ... Full text Cite

Three-dimensional Gross-Neveu model with two flavors of staggered fermions

Conference Proceedings of Science · July 8, 2022 We introduce a strongly interacting lattice field theory model containing two flavors of massless staggered fermions with two kind of interactions: (1) a lattice current-current interaction, and (2) an on-site four-fermion interaction. At weak couplings, w ... Cite

Spacetime symmetric qubit regularization of the asymptotically free two-dimensional O(4) model

Journal Article Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology · March 21, 2022 Full text Cite

Quantum Criticality of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity with Relativity.

Journal Article Physical review letters · March 2022 Featured Publication We study a quantum phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in a new two-dimensional bipartite lattice model of electrons that is amenable to sign-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Importantly, interactions in our model are not o ... Full text Cite

Qubit Regularization and Qubit Embedding Algebras

Journal Article Symmetry · February 1, 2022 Featured Publication Qubit regularization is a procedure to regularize the infinite dimensional local Hilbert space of bosonic fields to a finite dimensional one, which is a crucial step when trying to simulate lattice quantum field theories on a quantum computer. When the qub ... Full text Cite

Subleading conformal dimensions at the O(4) Wilson-Fisher fixed point

Journal Article Physical Review D · February 1, 2022 In this work we focus on computing the conformal dimensions D(jL,jR) of local fields that transform in an irreducible representation of SU(2)×SU(2) labeled with (jL,jR) at the O(4) Wilson-Fisher fixed point using the Monte Carlo method. In the large charge ... Full text Cite

Qubit regularization of asymptotic freedom

Journal Article Physical Review Letters · December 3, 2020 Featured Publication We provide strong evidence that the asymptotically free (1+1)-dimensional non-linear O(3) sigma model can be regularized using a quantum lattice Hamiltonian, referred to as the "Heisenberg-comb", that acts on a Hilbert space with only two qubits per spatia ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hamiltonian models of lattice fermions solvable by the meron-cluster algorithm

Journal Article Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology · November 30, 2020 We introduce a half-filled Hamiltonian of spin-half lattice fermions that can be studied with the efficient meron-cluster algorithm in any dimension. As with the usual bipartite half-filled Hubbard models, the naïve U(2) symmetry is enhanced to SO(4). On t ... Link to item Cite

Baryon bag simulation of QCD in the strong coupling limit

Conference PoS LATTICE2019 (2019) 117 · August 27, 2020 We explore the possibility of a simulation of strong coupling QCD in terms of so-called baryon bags. In this form the known representation in terms of monomers, dimers and baryon loops is reorganized such that the baryon contributions are collected in spac ... Open Access Cite

Quantum Critical Phenomena in an O(4) Fermion Chain

Conference PoS LATTICE2019 (2019) 222 · August 27, 2020 We construct a fermionic lattice model containing interacting spin-half fermions with an O(4) symmetry. In addition the model contains a Z2 chiral symmetry which prevents a fermion mass term. Our model is motivated by the ability to study its physics usin ... Cite

Emergence of Gauss' law in a Z2 lattice gauge theory in 1 + 1 dimensions

Journal Article Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics · July 10, 2020 We explore a Z2 Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory in one spatial dimension with a coupling h, without imposing any Gauss' law constraint. We show that in our model h=0 is a free deconfined quantum critical point containing massless fermions where all Gauss' ... Full text Cite

Fermion-bag inspired Hamiltonian lattice field theory for fermionic quantum criticality

Journal Article Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology · April 2, 2020 Motivated by the fermion bag approach we construct a new class of Hamiltonian lattice field theories that can help us to study fermionic quantum critical points. As a test of our method we construct the partition function of a simple lattice Hamiltonian in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Qubit regularization of the O (3) sigma model

Journal Article Physical Review D · September 17, 2019 We construct a qubit regularization of the O(3) nonlinear sigma model in two and three spatial dimensions using a quantum Hamiltonian with two qubits per lattice site. Using a worldline formulation and worm algorithms, we show that in two spatial dimension ... Full text Cite