Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2002-03-28
Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 094505
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
41 pages, 12 figures, RevTex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.094505
We study the low-lying eigenmodes of the lattice overlap Dirac operator for SU(N) gauge theories with N=2,3,4 and 5 colours. We define a fermionic topological charge from the zero-modes of this operator and show that, as N grows, any disagreement with the topological charge obtained by cooling the fields, becomes rapidly less likely. By examining the fields where there is a disagreement, we are able to show that the Dirac operator does not resolve instantons below a critical size of about rho = 2.5 a, but resolves the larger, more physical instantons. We investigate the local chirality of the near-zero modes and how it changes as we go to larger N. We observe that the local chirality of these modes, which is prominent for SU(2) and SU(3), becomes rapidly weaker for larger N and is consistent with disappearing entirely in the limit of N -> infinity. We find that this is not due to the observed disappearance of small instantons at larger N.
Cundy Nigel
Teper Michael
Wenger Urs
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