Non-renormalizability of the HMC algorithm

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2011)104MaRDI QIDQ715270zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stefan Schaefer, M. Lüscher

Publication date 4 November 2012

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1810

zbMATH Keywords

lattice QCDlattice quantum field theoryrenormalization regularization and renormalons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: In lattice field theory, renormalizable simulation algorithms are attractive, because their scaling behaviour as a function of the lattice spacing is predictable. Algorithms implementing the Langevin equation, for example, are known to be renormalizable if the simulated theory is. In this paper we show that the situation is different in the case of the molecular-dynamics evolution on which the HMC algorithm is based. More precisely, studying the phi^4 theory, we find that the hyperbolic character of the molecular-dynamics equations leads to non-local (and thus non-removable) ultraviolet singularities already at one-loop order of perturbation theory.

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