Exploring topology conserving gauge actions for lattice QCD

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/017zbMATH Open1226.81147arXivhep-lat/0511016OpenAlexW4298046166MaRDI QIDQ648640FDOQ648640

Authors: W. Bietenholz, Karl Jansen, Kei-Ichi Nagai, S. Necco, L. Scorzato, Stanislav Shcheredin 

Publication date: 28 November 2011

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

Abstract: We explore gauge actions for lattice QCD, which are constructed such that the occurrence of small plaquette values is strongly suppressed. By choosing strong bare gauge couplings we arrive at values for the physical lattice spacings of O(0.1 fm). Such gauge actions tend to confine the Monte Carlo history to a single topological sector. This topological stability facilitates the collection of a large set of configurations in a specific sector, which is profitable for numerical studies in the epsilon-regime. The suppression of small plaquette values is also expected to be favourable for simulations with dynamical quarks. We use a local Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate such actions, and we present numerical results for the static potential, the physical scale, the topological stability and the kernel condition number of the overlap Dirac operator. In addition we discuss the question of reflection positivity for a class of such gauge actions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0511016

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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