PERFECT SCALARS ON THE LATTICE

DOI10.1142/S0217751X00001099zbMATH Open0990.81087arXivhep-lat/9911015MaRDI QIDQ4512903FDOQ4512903

W. Bietenholz

Publication date: 2000

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We perform renormalization group transformations to construct optimally local perfect lattice actions for free scalar fields of any mass. Their couplings decay exponentially. The spectrum is identical to the continuum spectrum, while thermodynamic quantities have tiny lattice artifacts. To make such actions applicable in simulations, we truncate the couplings to a unit hypercube and observe that spectrum and thermodynamics are still drastically improved compared to the standard lattice action. We show how preconditioning techniques can be applied successfully to this type of action. We also consider a number of variants of the perfect lattice action, such as the use of an anisotropic or triangular lattice, and modifications of the renormalization group transformations motivated by wavelets. Along the way we illuminate the consistent treatment of gauge fields, and we find a new fermionic fixed point action with attractive properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9911015

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization group transformationsperfect lattice action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Cites Work

• Efficient Implementation of a Class of Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods
• Preconditioning of improved and perfect fermion actions
• Self-consistent calculation of real space renormalization group flows and effective potentials

Cited In (4)

• Time evolution as refining, coarse graining and entangling
• Perfect discretizations as a gateway to one-loop partition functions for 4D gravity
• From the discrete to the continuous: towards a cylindrically consistent dynamics
• Classically perfect gauge actions on anisotropic lattices

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