Topological structure of the QCD vacuum revealed by overlap fermions

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-13872-0_40zbMATH Open1204.81173arXiv0912.2281OpenAlexW1651730850MaRDI QIDQ3063752FDOQ3063752

Karl Koller, E.-M. Ilgenfritz, Volker Weinberg, Yoshiaki Koma, G. Schierholz

Publication date: 15 December 2010

Published in: High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Garching/Munich 2009 (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Overlap fermions preserve a remnant of chiral symmetry on the lattice. They are a powerful tool to investigate the topological structure of the vacuum of Yang-Mills theory and full QCD. Recent results concerning the localization of topological charge and the localization and local chirality of the overlap eigenmodes are reported. The charge distribution is radically different, if a spectral cut-off for the Dirac eigenmodes is applied. The density q(x) is changing from the scale-a charge density (with full lattice resolution) to the ultraviolet filtered charge density. The scale-a density, computed on the Linux cluster of LRZ, has a singular, sign-coherent global structure of co-dimension 1 first described by the Kentucky group. We stress, however, the cluster properties of the UV filtered topological density resembling the instanton picture. The spectral cut-off can be mapped to a bosonic smearing procedure. The UV filtered field strength reveals a high degree of (anti)selfduality at "hot spots" of the action. The fermionic eigenmodes show a high degree of local chirality. The lowest modes are seen to be localized in low-dimensional space-time regions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2281

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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• Chiral condensate, quark charge and chiral density
• The local structure of topological charge fluctuations in QCD
• Distribution of fermionic and topological observables on the lattice
• Topological charge fluctuations and low-lying Dirac eigenmodes

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