Exploring Topology Conserving Gauge Actions for Lattice QCD

Details Exploring Topology Conserving Gauge Actions for Lattice QCD Exploring Topology Conserving Gauge Actions for Lattice QCD

2005-11-07

arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0511016v1

JHEP 0603 (2006) 017

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

28 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/017

We explore gauge actions for lattice QCD, which are constructed such that the occurrence of small plaquette values is strongly suppressed. By choosing strong bare gauge couplings we arrive at values for the physical lattice spacings of O(0.1 fm). Such gauge actions tend to confine the Monte Carlo history to a single topological sector. This topological stability facilitates the collection of a large set of configurations in a specific sector, which is profitable for numerical studies in the epsilon-regime. The suppression of small plaquette values is also expected to be favourable for simulations with dynamical quarks. We use a local Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate such actions, and we present numerical results for the static potential, the physical scale, the topological stability and the kernel condition number of the overlap Dirac operator. In addition we discuss the question of reflection positivity for a class of such gauge actions.

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