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Karl Jansen

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arXiv2003

Reducing Residual-Mass Effects for Domain-Wall Fermions

It has been suggested to project out a number of low-lying eigenvalues of the four-dimensional Wilson--Dirac operator that generates the transfer matrix of domain-wall fermions in order to improve simulations with domain-wall fermions. We investigate how this projection method reduces the residual chiral symmetry-breaking effects for a finite extent of the extra dimension. We use the standard Wilson as well as the renormalization--group--improved gauge action. In both cases we find a substantially reduced residual mass when the projection method is employed. In addition, the large fluctuations in this quantity disappear.

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arXiv2002

Residual mass effects in improved domain wall fermions

In order to improve simulations with domain wall fermions (DWFs), it has been suggested to project out a number of low-lying eigenvalues of the 4-dimensional Dirac operator that generates the transfer matrix of DWF. We investigate how this projection method affects chiral properties of quenched DWF. In particular, we study the behaviour of the residual mass as a function of the size of the extra dimension.

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arXiv2002

O(a) improvement of lattice QCD with two flavors of Wilson quarks

We consider O(a) improvement for two flavor lattice QCD. The improvement term in the action is computed non-perturbatively for a large range of the bare coupling. The position of the critical line and higher order lattice artifacts remaining after improvement are estimated. We also discuss the behavior of the HMC algorithm in our simulations.

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arXiv2002

From enemies to friends: chiral symmetry on the lattice

The physics of strong interactions is invariant under the exchange of left-handed and right-handed quarks, at least in the massless limit. This invariance is reflected in the chiral symmetry of quantum chromodynamics. Surprisingly, it has become clear only recently how to implement this important symmetry in lattice formulations of quantum field theories. We will discuss realizations of exact lattice chiral symmetry and give an example of the computation of a physical observable in quantum chromodynamics where chiral symmetry is important. This calculation is performed by relying on finite size scaling methods as predicted by chiral perturbation theory.

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arXiv2001

Scalar condensate and light quark masses from overlap fermions

We have studied pseudoscalar correlation functions computed using the overlap operator. Within the accuracy of our calculation we find that the quark mass dependence agrees with the prediction of lowest-order Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) for quark masses in the range of m ~ m_s/2-2m_s. We present the results of an analysis which assumes lowest-order ChPT to be valid to extract the low-energy constants Sigma and f_P, as well as the strange quark mass. Non-perturbative renormalization is implemented via a matching procedure with data obtained using Wilson fermions in the Schroedinger functional set-up. We find that the scalar condensate computed here agrees with the one obtained previously through a finite-size scaling analysis.

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arXiv2001

Non-perturbative renormalization of the quark condensate in Ginsparg-Wilson regularizations

We present a method to compute non-perturbatively the renormalization constant of the scalar density for Ginsparg-Wilson fermions. It relies on chiral symmetry and is based on a matching of renormalization group invariant masses at fixed pseudoscalar meson mass, making use of results previously obtained by the ALPHA Collaboration for O(a)-improved Wilson fermions. Our approach is quite general and enables the renormalization of scalar and pseudoscalar densities in lattice regularizations that preserve chiral symmetry and of fermion masses in any regularization. As an application we compute the non-perturbative factor which relates the renormalization group invariant quark condensate to its bare counterpart, obtained with overlap fermions at beta=5.85 in the quenched approximation.

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arXiv2001

First results on the running coupling in QCD with two massless flavours

We report on the non-perturbative computation of the running coupling of two-flavour QCD in the Schr"odinger functional scheme. The corresponding Lambda-parameter, which describes the coupling strength at high energy, is related to a low energy scale which still remains to be connected to a hadronic ``experimentally'' observable quantity. We find the non-perturbative evolution of the coupling indispensable to avoid untolerable errors in the estimated Lambda-parameter.

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arXiv2000

Comparative Benchmarks of full QCD Algorithms

We report performance benchmarks for several algorithms that we have used to simulate the Schr"odinger functional with two flavors of dynamical quarks. They include hybrid and polynomial hybrid Monte Carlo with preconditioning. An appendix describes a method to deal with autocorrelations for nonlinear functions of primary observables as they are met here due to reweighting.

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arXiv1999

Chiral symmetry breaking from Ginsparg-Wilson fermions

We calculate the large-volume and small-mass dependences of the quark condensate in quenched QCD using Neuberger's operator. We find good agreement with the predictions of quenched chiral perturbation theory, enabling a determination of the chiral lagrangian parameter Σ, up to a multiplicative renormalization.

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arXiv1997

Experiences with the Polynomial Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm

We discuss a simulation algorithm for dynamical fermions, which combines the multiboson technique with the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm. The algorithm turns out to give a substantial gain over standard methods in practical simulations and to be suitable for dealing with fermion zero modes in a clean and controllable way.

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arXiv1997

Liapunov Exponents and the Reversibility of Molecular Dynamics Algorithms

We study the phenomenon of lack of reversibility in molecular dynamics algorithms for the case of Wilson's lattice QCD. We demonstrate that the classical equations of motion that are employed in these algorithms are chaotic in nature. The leading Liapunov exponent is determined in a range of coupling parameters. We give a quantitative estimate of the consequences of the breakdown of reversibility due to round-off errors.

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arXiv1997

A Polynomial Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm

We present a simulation algorithm for dynamical fermions that combines the multiboson technique with the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm. We find that the algorithm gives a substantial gain over the standard methods in practical simulations. We point out the ability of the algorithm to treat fermion zeromodes in a clean and controllable manner.

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arXiv1996

Some aspects of simulation algorithms for dynamical fermions

Three topics concerning fermion simulation algorithms are discussed: 1.) A performance comparison of the multiboson technique to simulate dynamical fermions and the Kramers equation algorithm, 2.) the question of reversibility in the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm and 3.) the implementation of Symanzik's improvement program for dynamical Wilson fermions.

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arXiv1996

Implementation of Symanzik's Improvement Program for Simulations of Dynamical Wilson Fermions in Lattice QCD

We discuss the implementation of a Sheikholeslami-Wohlert term for simulations of lattice QCD with dynamical Wilson fermions as required by Symanzik's improvement program. We show that for the Hybrid Monte Carlo or Kramers equation algorithm standard even-odd preconditioning can be maintained. We design tests of the implementation using analytically and numerically computed cumulant expansions. We find that, for situations where the average number of Conjugate Gradient iterations exceeds 200, the overhead is only about 20%.

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