Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1997-05-05
Phys.Rev. D57 (1998) 1633-1641
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
36 pages, Latex, with 11 embedded figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.1633
In continuum QCD, nontrivial gauge topologies give rise to zero eigenvalues of the massless Dirac operator. In lattice QCD with Wilson fermions, these zero modes appear as exactly real eigenvalues of the Wilson-Dirac operator and hence as poles in the quark propagator in the vicinity of critical hopping parameter. It is shown that "exceptional configurations" which arise in the quenched approximation at small quark mass are the result of the fluctuation of the position of zero mode poles to sub-critical values of the hopping parameter on particular gauge configurations. We describe a procedure for correcting these lattice artifacts by first isolating the contribution of zero mode poles to the quark propagator and then shifting the sub-critical poles to the critical point. This procedure defines a modified quenched approximation in which accurate calculations can be carried out for arbitrarily small quark masses.
Bardeen W.
Duncan Alan
Eichten Estia
Hockney George
Thacker Hank
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