Numerical study of lattice index theorem usingimproved cooling and overlap fermions

Details Numerical study of lattice index theorem usingimproved cooling and overlap fermions Numerical study of lattice index theorem usingimproved cooling and overlap fermions

2001-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0111060v2

Phys.Rev.D65:074510,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

15 pages, 1 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.65.074510

We investigate topological charge and the index theorem on finite lattices numerically. Using mean field improved gauge field configurations we calculate the topological charge Q using the gluon field definition with ${\cal O}(a^4)$-improved cooling and an ${\cal O}(a^4)$-improved field strength tensor $F_{\mu\nu}$. We also calculate the index of the massless overlap fermion operator by directly measuring the differences of the numbers of zero modes with left- and right--handed chiralities. For sufficiently smooth field configurations we find that the gluon field definition of the topological charge is integer to better than 1% and furthermore that this agrees with the index of the overlap Dirac operator, i.e., the Atiyah-Singer index theorem is satisfied. This establishes a benchmark for reliability when calculating lattice quantities which are very sensitive to topology.

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