FINITE-DENSITY RESULTS FOR WILSON FERMIONS USING THE VOLUME METHOD

Nonzero chemical potential studies with Wilson fermions should avoid t he proliferation of flavor-equivalent nucleon states encountered with staggered formulation of fermions. However, conventional wisdom has be en that finite baryon density calculations with Wilson fermions will b e prohibitively expensive. We demonstrate that the volume method appli ed to Wilson fermions gives surprisingly stable results on a small num ber of configurations. It is pointed out that this method may be appli ed to any local or nonlocal gauge invariant quantity. Some illustrativ e results for [($) over bar psi psi] and [J] at various values of mu i n a quenched lattice simulation are given.