Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2002-03-12
Comput.Phys.Commun. 148 (2002) 81-86
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
9 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
Smearing the gauge links of dynamical configurations removes small scale unphysical vacuum fluctuations und thus improves the chiral properties of lattice fermions. We present a new algorithm for the simulation of dynamical fermions coupled via smeared links based on the standard pure gauge overrelaxation and heatbath updatings. Smeared links play a fundamental role in making this algorithm effective. At fixed lattice spacing the computational cost of the algorithm has an extra volume factor due to the finite volume of the lattice region which can be updated. As the continuum limit is approached the physical volume of the updated region remains constant. We simulated four flavors of staggered fermions coupled via hypercubic (HYP) smeared links. The simulation cost of the new algorithm on 10 fm^4 volumes is a factor 2-8 larger than with the standard Hybrid Monte Carlo but the improved properties of the HYP action allow to gain a factor 2 in the lattice spacing. The new algorithm could be applicable to simulations of more complicated chiral fermionic actions, like overlap or perfect actions.
Hasenfratz Anna
Knechtli Francesco
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