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Wave functions of $SU(3)$ pure gauge glueballs on the lattice: The Bethe-Salpeter wave functions of $SU(3)$ pure gauge glueballs are revisited in this study. The ground and the first excited states of scalar and tensor glueballs are identified unambiguously by using the variational method on the basis of large operator...
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Is there any gender/race bias in hep-lat primary publication? Machine-Learning Evaluation of Author Ethnicity and Gender: In this work, we analyze papers that are classified as primary hep-lat to study whether there is any race or gender bias in the journal-publication process. We implement machine learning to predic...
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Euclidean partons?: In this talk we reexamine the possibility of evaluating parton distribution functions from lattice simulations. We show that, while in principle individual moments can be extracted from lattice data, in all cases the process of renormalization, hindered by lattice momenta limitation, represents an o...
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$|V_{ub}|$ determination in lattice QCD: The 2012 PDG reports a tension at the level of $3 \sigma$ between two exclusive determinations of $|V_{ub}|$. They are obtained by combining the experimental branching ratios of $B \to \tau \nu$ and $B \to \pi l \nu$ (respectively) with a theoretical computation of the hadronic ...
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Gauge Invariant Effective Action in Abelian Chiral Gauge Theory on the Lattice: L\"uscher's recent formulation of Abelian chiral gauge theories on the lattice, in the vacuum (or perturbative) sector in infinite volume, is reinterpreted in terms of the lattice covariant regularization. The gauge invariance of the effe...
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Comment on Implications of new physics in the decays $B_c \to (J/ψ,η_c)τν$: As part of a study BSM corrections to leptonic decays of the $B_c$ meson, Tran et al. (arXiv:1801.06927) use the covariant confining quark model (CCQM) to estimate the matrix element of the pseudo-scalar curent between the vacuum and the $B_c...
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Gauge-invariant nonlocal quark condensates in QCD: We study, by numerical simulations on a lattice, the behaviour of the gauge-invariant nonlocal quark condensates in the QCD vacuum both in the quenched approximation and with four flavours of dynamical staggered fermions. The correlation length of the condensate is det...
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Electromagnetic structure of charmed baryons in Lattice QCD: As a continuation of our recent work on the electromagnetic properties of the doubly charmed $\Xi_{cc}$ baryon, we compute the charge radii and the magnetic moments of the singly charmed $\Sigma_c$, $\Omega_c$ and the doubly charmed $\Omega_{cc}$ baryons in 2...
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Nonperturbative Collins-Soper Kernel from Chiral Quarks with Physical Masses: We present a lattice QCD calculation of the rapidity anomalous dimension of quark transverse-momentum-dependent distributions, i.e., the Collins-Soper (CS) kernel, up to transverse separations of about 1 fm. This unitary lattice calculation...
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Hadron Structure and Form Factors: We review recent results on hadron form factors and nucleon generalized parton distibutions obtained with dynamical lattice QCD simulations. We discuss lattice artifacts and open questions, and present the connection of lattice results to hadron structure and to the corresponding quan...
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Fast Partitioning of Pauli Strings into Commuting Families for Expectation Value Measurements of Dense Operators: The cost of measuring quantum expectation values of an operator can be reduced by grouping the Pauli string ($SU(2)$ tensor product) decomposition of the operator into maximally commuting sets. We detail ...
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Is SU(3) gauge theory with 13 massless flavors conformal?: We use lattice simulations to study SU(3) gauge theory with 13 massless fermions in the fundamental representation. We present evidence that the theory is conformal with a non-zero infrared fixed point in the gauge coupling. We use a newly-developed technique t...
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Automatic differentiation for error analysis: We present ADerrors.jl, a software for linear error propagation and analysis of Monte Carlo data. Although the focus is in data analysis in Lattice QCD, where estimates of the observables have to be computed from Monte Carlo samples, the software also deals with variables w...
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Lattice QCD Determination of $g_A$: The nucleon axial coupling, $g_A$, is a fundamental property of protons and neutrons, dictating the strength with which the weak axial current of the Standard Model couples to nucleons, and hence, the lifetime of a free neutron. The prominence of $g_A$ in nuclear physics has made it ...
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SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC RANDOM WALKS I. REPRESENTATION IN TERMS OF ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIALS: Spherically symmetric random walks in arbitrary dimension $D$ can be described in terms of Gegenbauer (ultraspherical) polynomials. For example, Legendre polynomials can be used to represent the special case of two-dimensional sp...
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Determinant of a new fermionic action on a lattice - (II): We investigate the fermion determinant of a new action on a $(1+D)$-dimensional lattice for SU(2) gauge groups. This action possesses the discrete chiral symmetry and provides $2^D$-component fermions. We also comment on the numerical results on fermion determi...
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Failure of Mean Field Theory at Large N: We study strongly coupled lattice QCD with $N$ colors of staggered fermions in 3+1 dimensions. While mean field theory describes the low temperature behavior of this theory at large $N$, it fails in the scaling region close to the finite temperature second order chiral phase tra...
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Hamiltonian effective field theory study of the $\mathbf{N^*(1535)}$ resonance in lattice QCD: Drawing on experimental data for baryon resonances, Hamiltonian effective field theory (HEFT) is used to predict the positions of the finite-volume energy levels to be observed in lattice QCD simulations of the lowest-lying...
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Free energy of an SU(2) monopole-antimonopole pair: We induce an external ${Z}_2$ monopole-antimonopole pair in an SU(2) lattice gauge system and measure its free energy as a way to probe the vacuum structure. We discuss the motivation and computational methodology of the investigation and illustrate our preliminary re...
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Phase diagram of the three dimensional Thirring model - A Monte Carlo study: Certain approximate solutions of the continuum Schwinger-Dyson Equations (SDEs) predict chiral symmetry breaking in the 3d Thirring model when the number of fermion flavors N_f<4.32 whereas others predict symmetry breaking for all N_f. Our r...
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A physicist-friendly reformulation of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index (on a lattice): The Atiyah-Singer index theorem on a closed manifold is well understood and appreciated in physics. On the other hand, the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index, which is an extension to a manifold with boundary, is physicist-unfriendly, in tha...
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Measures of critical exponents in the four dimensional site percolation: Using finite-size scaling methods we measure the thermal and magnetic exponents of the site percolation in four dimensions, obtaining a value for the anomalous dimension very different from the results found in the literature. We also obtain the l...
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A Dual Algorithm for Non-abelian Yang-Mills coupled to Dynamical Fermions: We extend the dual algorithm recently described for pure, non-abelian Yang-Mills on the lattice to the case of lattice fermions coupled to Yang-Mills, by constructing an ergodic Metropolis algorithm for dynamic fermions that is local, exact, a...
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Chiral perturbation theory in a theta vacuum: We consider chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) with a non-zero theta term. Due to the CP violating term, the vacuum of chiral fields is shifted to a non-trivial element on the SU(N_f) group manifold. The CP violation also provides mixing of different CP eigenstates, between ...
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Preliminary Study of B_K on 2+1 flavor DWF lattices from QCDOC: I present some preliminary calculations of B_K on 2+1 flavor domain-wall fermion lattices from the QCDOC, including a set of 16^3x32x8 lattices with a^{-1} near 1.6 GeV. Although a final result awaits the production of a much longer run, I will compare thi...
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Lattice Study of Radiative $J/ψ$ Decay to a Tensor Glueball: The radiative decay of $J/\psi$ into a pure gauge tensor glueball is studied in the quenched lattice QCD formalism. With two anisotropic lattices, the mutlipole amplitudes E_1(0), M_2(0) and E_3(0) are obtained to be 0.114(12)(6)GeV, -0.011(5)(1)GeV, and 0.02...
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Existence and Non-Existence of Doubly Heavy Tetraquark Bound States: In this work we investigate the existence of bound states for doubly heavy tetraquark systems $ \bar{Q}\bar{Q}'qq' $ in a full lattice-QCD computation, where heavy bottom quarks are treated in the framework of non-relativistic QCD. We focus on three s...
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First dynamical simulations with minimally doubled fermions: For thermodynamics studies it is desirable to simulate two degenerate flavors and retain at least a remnant of the chiral symmetry. Staggered fermions can achieve this at the cost of rooting the determinant. Rooting can be avoided using minimally doubled ferm...
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A novel Bayesian approach to spectral function reconstruction: We present a novel approach to the inference of spectral functions from Euclidean time correlator data that makes close contact with modern Bayesian concepts. Our method differs significantly from the maximum entropy method (MEM). A new set of axioms is pos...
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Phase transition in fluctuating branched geometry: We study grand--canonical and canonical properties of the model of branched polymers proposed in \cite{adfo}. We show that the model has a fourth order phase transition and calculate critical exponents. At the transition the exponent $\gamma$ of the grand-canonical ens...
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Bound states for Overlap and Fixed Point Actions close to the chiral limit: We study the overlap and the fixed point Dirac operators for massive fermions in the two-flavor lattice Schwinger model. The masses of the triplet (pion) and singlet (eta) bound states are determined down to small fermion masses and the mass ...
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Anomalous finite-size scaling at thermal first-order transitions in systems with disordered boundary conditions: We investigate the equilibrium and off-equilibrium behaviors of systems at thermal first-order transitions (FOTs) when the boundary conditions favor one of the two phases. As a theoretical laboratory we co...
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Accurate Scale Determinations for the Wilson Gauge Action: Accurate determinations of the physical scale of a lattice action are required to check scaling and take the continuum limit. We present a high statistics study of the static potential for the SU(3) Wilson gauge action on coarse lattices ($5.54 \leq \beta \leq ...
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Quarkonium correlators at finite temperature and potential models: We discuss the calculations of quarkonium spectral functions in potential models and their implications for the interpretation of the lattice data on quarkonium correlators. In particular, we find that melting of different quarkonium states does not lea...
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The Infrared Landau Gauge Gluon Propagator from Lattice QCD: The quenched Landau gauge gluon propagator is investigated in lattice QCD with large assimetric lattices, accessing momenta as low as $q \sim 100$ MeV or smaller. Our investigation focus on the IR limit of the gluon dressing function, testing the compatibilit...
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Correlations equalities and some upper bounds for the coupling constant implying area decay of Wilson loop for $Z_3$ lattice gauge theories: Correlation identities are obtained for $Z_3$ lattice gauge theory where the bonds of the plaquettes are decorated by generalized three-state Ising variables. Making use of corr...
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Prepotential formulation of SU(3) lattice gauge theory: The SU(3) lattice gauge theory is reformulated in terms of SU(3) prepotential harmonic oscillators. This reformulation has enlarged $SU(3)\otimes U(1) \otimes U(1)$ gauge invariance under which the prepotential operators transform like matter fields. The Hilbert s...
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Specific heat and energy for the three-dimensional O(2) model: We investigate the three-dimensional O(2) model on lattices of size 8^3 to 160^3 close to the critical point at zero magnetic field. We confirm explicitly the value of the critical coupling J_c found by Ballesteros et al. and estimate there the universal va...
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Nucleon form factors on a large volume lattice near the physical point in 2+1 flavor QCD: We present results for the isovector nucleon form factors measured on a $96^4$ lattice at almost the physical pion mass with a lattice spacing of 0.085 fm in 2+1 flavor QCD. The configurations are generated with the stout-smeare...
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On observable particles in theories with a Brout-Englert-Higgs effect: Even at weak coupling the physical, observable spectrum of gauge theories with a Brout-Englert-Higgs effect can deviate from the elementary one of perturbation theory. This can be analytically described and treated using the Fr\"ohlich-Morchio-Stroc...
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Moments of meson distribution functions with dynamical twisted mass fermions: We present our preliminary results on the lowest moment <x> of quark distribution functions of the pion using two flavor dynamical simulations with Wilson twisted mass fermions at maximal twist. The calculation is done in a range of pion ma...
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Strategies for the Determination of the Running Coupling of $(2+1)$-dimensional QED with Quantum Computing: We propose to utilize NISQ-era quantum devices to compute short distance quantities in $(2+1)$-dimensional QED and to combine them with large volume Monte Carlo simulations and perturbation theory. On the quant...
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The twelve-flavor $\boldsymbolβ$-function and dilaton tests of the sextet scalar: We discuss near-conformal gauge theories beyond the standard model (BSM) where interesting results on the twelve-flavor $\beta$-function of massless fermions in the fundamental representation of the SU(3) color gauge group and dilaton t...
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Fermions as global correction in lattice QCD: The fermion determinant is a highly non-local object and its logarithm is an extensive quantity. For these reasons it is widely believed that the determinant cannot be treated in acceptance steps of gauge link configurations that differ in a large fraction of the links. How...
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Self-Avoiding Gonihedric Srting and Spin Systems: We classify different theories of self-intersecting random surfaces assigning special weights to intersections. When self-intersection coupling constant $\kappa$ tends to zero, then the surface can freely inetrsect and it is completely self-avoiding when $\kappa$ tends ...
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Induced representations of Poincare group on the lattice: spin 1/2 and 1 case: Following standard methods we explore the construction of the discrete Poincare group, the semidirect product of discrete translations and integral Lorentz transformations, using the Wigner-Mackey construction restricted to the momentum an...
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On ambiguities of sign determination of the S-matrix from energy levels in a finite box: In a recent paper the authors make a study on the determination of the S-matrix elements for scattering of particles in the infinite volume from the energy levels in the finite box for the case of multiple channels. The study is ...
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Exact chiral symmetry on the lattice and the Ginsparg-Wilson relation: It is shown that the Ginsparg-Wilson relation implies an exact symmetry of the fermion action, which may be regarded as a lattice form of an infinitesimal chiral rotation. Using this result it is straightforward to construct lattice Yukawa models wi...
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A precise determination of T_c in QCD from scaling: Existing lattice data on the QCD phase transition are analyzed in renormalized perturbation theory. In quenched QCD it is found that T_c scales for lattices with only 3 time slices, and that T_c/Lambda_msbar=1.15 \pm 0.05. A preliminary estimate in QCD with two flavou...
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Accelerating Staggered Fermion Dynamics with the Rational Hybrid Monte Carlo (RHMC) Algorithm: Improved staggered fermion formulations are a popular choice for lattice QCD calculations. Historically, the algorithm used for such calculations has been the inexact R algorithm, which has systematic errors that only vanis...
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Preliminary results of $ΔI=1/2$ and $3/2$, $K$ to $ππ$ Decay Amplitudes from Lattice QCD: We report a direct lattice calculation of the $K$ to $\pi\pi$ decay matrix elements for both $\Delta I=1/2$ and $3/2$ channels on 2+1 flavor, domain wall fermion, $16^3\times32$ lattices with zero $\pi\pi$ relative momentum and ...
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Large-N reduction with two adjoint Dirac fermions: We study the single site SU(N) lattice gauge theory with N_f=2 adjoint Wilson fermions for values of N up to 53. We determine the phase diagram of the theory as a function of the hopping parameter kappa and the inverse 't Hooft coupling b, searching for the region in w...
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Physical properties of Polyakov loop geometrical clusters in SU(2) gluodynamics: We apply the liquid droplet model to describe the clustering phenomenon in SU(2) gluodynamics, especially, in the vicinity of the deconfinement phase transition. In particular, we analyze the size distributions of clusters formed by the ...
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Lattice study of the chiral magnetic effect in a chirally imbalanced matter: We investigate the chiral magnetic effect by lattice QCD with a chiral chemical potential. In a chirally imbalanced matter, we obtain a finite induced current along an external magnetic field. We analyze the dependence on the lattice spacing...
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On Dirac Zero Modes in Hyperdiamond Model: Using the SU(5) symmetry of the 4D hyperdiamond and results on the study of 4D graphene given in "Four Dimensional Graphene" (L.B Drissi, E.H Saidi, M. Bousmina, CPM-11-01, Phys. Rev. D (2011)), we engineer a class of 4D lattice QCD fermions whose Dirac operators have two zero...
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From deep inelastic scattering to heavy-flavor semi-leptonic decays: Total rates into multi-hadron final states from lattice QCD: We present a new technique for extracting decay and transition rates into final states with any number of hadrons. The approach is only sensitive to total rates, in which all out-states wi...
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Pion electric polarizability from lattice QCD: Electromagnetic polarizabilities are important parameters for understanding the interaction between photons and hadrons. For pions these quantities are poorly constrained experimentally since they can only be measured indirectly. New experiments at CERN and Jefferson Lab a...
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K->pi form factors with reduced model dependence: Using partially twisted boundary conditions we compute the K->pi semi-leptonic form factors in the range of momentum transfers 0 <~ q^2 <= q^2_{max}=(mK-mpi)^2 in lattice QCD with N_f=2+1 dynamical flavours. In this way we are able to determine f+(0) without any interpo...
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Distributions of the Phase Angle of the Fermion Determinant in QCD: The distribution of the phase angle and the magnitude of the fermion determinant as well as its correlations with the baryon number and the chiral condensate are studied for QCD at non zero quark chemical potential. Results are derived to one-loop orde...
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Numerical tests of the electroweak phase transition and thermodynamics of the electroweak plasma: The finite temperature phase transition in the SU(2) Higgs model at a Higgs boson mass $M_H \simeq 34$ GeV is studied in numerical simulations on four-dimensional lattices with time-like extensions up to $L_t=5$. The eff...
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Semileptonic $B$-meson decays to light pseudoscalar mesons on the HISQ ensembles: We report the status of an ongoing lattice-QCD calculation of form factors for exclusive semileptonic decays of $B$ mesons with both charged currents ($B\to\pi\ell\nu$, $B_s\to K\ell\nu$) and neutral currents ($B\to\pi\ell^+\ell^-$, $B\...
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Study of spatial meson correlators at finite temperature in quenched anisotropic lattice QCD: We analyze the meson correlator in the spatial direction at finite temperature. To achieve fine resolution in the spatial direction, we use an anisotropic lattice with the standard Wilson plaquette gauge action and the $O(a)...
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Chiral behavior of $K \to πl ν$ decay form factors in lattice QCD with exact chiral symmetry: We calculate the form factors of the $K \to \pi l \nu$ semileptonic decays in three-flavor lattice QCD, and study their chiral behavior as a function of the momentum transfer and the Nambu-Goldstone boson masses. Chiral symm...
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K-meson vector and tensor decay constants and BK-parameter from Nf=2 tmQCD: We present work in progress on the computation of the K-meson vector and tensor decay constants, as well as the B-parameter in Kaon oscillations. Our simulations are performed in a partially quenched setup, with two dynamical (sea) Wilson qua...
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Better Domain-Wall Fermions: We discuss two modifications of domain-wall fermions, aimed to reduce the chiral-symmetry violations presently encountered in numerical simulations.
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Effective Polyakov line actions, and their solutions at finite chemical potential: I outline recent progress in the relative weights approach to deriving effective Polyakov line actions from an underlying lattice gauge theory, and compare mean field and complex Langevin methods for solving such theories at finite che...
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Locality and exponential error reduction in numerical lattice gauge theory: In non-abelian gauge theories without matter fields, expectation values of large Wilson loops and loop correlation functions are difficult to compute through numerical simulation, because the signal-to-noise ratio is very rapidly decaying for...
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A new phase in the Lorentzian type IIB matrix model and the emergence of continuous space-time: The Lorentzian type IIB matrix model is a promising candidate for a non-perturbative formulation of superstring theory. In previous studies, Monte Carlo calculations provided interesting results indicating the spontaneous ...
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Lattice 2001: Reflections: A few subjects which strongly intertwine our field are discussed: K --> Pi Pi decay, chiral symmetry on the lattice and a few other selected topics. Open questions are touched also on perturbation theory, locality, Gribov copies, CP symmetry in chiral gauge theories and cut-off effects.
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Properties of light pseudoscalars from lattice QCD with HISQ ensembles: We fit lattice-QCD data for light-pseudoscalar masses and decay constants, from HISQ configurations generated by MILC, to SU(3) staggered chiral perturbation theory. At present such fits have rather high values of chi^2/d.o.f., possibly due to the ...
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Solutions of the Ginsparg-Wilson relation and improved domain wall fermions: We discuss a number of lattice fermion actions solving the Ginsparg-Wilson relation. We also consider short ranged approximate solutions. In particular, we are interested in reducing the lattice artifacts, while avoiding (or suppressing) add...
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Decomposition of the static potential in the Maximal Abelian gauge: Decomposition of SU(2) gauge field into the monopole and monopoleless components is studied in the Maximal Abelian gauge using Monte-Carlo simulations in lattice SU(2) gluodynamics as well as in two-color QCD with both zero and nonzero quark chemical p...
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Large $N$ scaling and factorization in $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ Yang-Mills theory: We present results for Wilson loops smoothed with the Yang-Mills gradient flow and matched through the scale $t_0$. They provide renormalized and precise operators allowing to test the $1/N^2$ scaling both at finite lattice spacing and in the ...
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The Charge and Matter radial distributions of Heavy-Light mesons calculated on a lattice: For a heavy-light meson with a static heavy quark, we can explore the light quark distribution. The charge and matter radial distributions of these heavy-light mesons are measured on a 16^3 * 24 lattice at beta=5.7 and a hopping...
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Probes of nearly conformal behavior in lattice simulations of minimal walking technicolor: We present results from high precision, large volume simulations of the lattice gauge theory corresponding to minimal walking technicolor. We find evidence that the pion decay constant vanishes in the infinite volume limit and ...
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The compact Q=2 Abelian Higgs model in the London limit: vortex-monopole chains and the photon propagator: The confining and topological properties of the compact Abelian Higgs model with doubly-charged Higgs field in three space-time dimensions are studied. We consider the London limit of the model. We show that the...
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Dual formulations of Polyakov loop lattice models: Dual representations are constructed for non-abelian lattice spin models with U(N) and SU(N) symmetry groups, for all N and in any dimension. These models are usually related to the effective models describing the interaction between Polyakov loops in the strong couple...
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Universality and Scaling at the chiral transition in two-flavor QCD at finite temperature: The order of the phase transition in finite-temperature QCD with two degenerate light quarks is still an open problem and corresponds to the last question mark in the zero-density phase diagram of QCD. We argue that establishin...
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Lattice QCD study on $K^\ast(892)$ meson decay width: We deliver an exploratory lattice QCD examination of the $K^\ast(892)$ meson decay width with the help of the p-wave scattering phase $\delta_1$ of pion-kaon ($\pi K$) system in the isospin $I=1/2$ channel, which are extracted by the modified Rummukainen-Gottlieb fo...
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Matching coefficients for improved staggered bilinears: We calculate one-loop matching factors for bilinear operators composed of improved staggered fermions. We compare the results for different improvement schemes used in the recent literature, including the HYP action and an action close to the Asqtad action. We fin...
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Covariant gauge on the lattice: a new implementation: We derive a new implementation of linear covariant gauges on the lattice, based on a minimizing functional that can be interpreted as the Hamiltonian of a spin-glass model in a random external magnetic field. We show that our method solves most problems encountered ...
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New insight in the 2-flavor Schwinger model based on lattice simulations: We consider the Schwinger model with two degenerate, light fermion flavors by means of lattice simulations. At finite temperature, we probe the viability of a bosonization method by Hosotani et al. Next we explore an analogue to the pion decay co...
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Perfect Lattice Topology: The Quantum Rotor as a Test Case: Lattice actions and topological charges that are classically and quantum mechanically perfect (i.e. free of lattice artifacts) are constructed analytically for the quantum rotor. It is demonstrated that the Manton action is classically perfect while the Villai...
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Two-color QCD with staggered fermions at finite temperature under the influence of a magnetic field: In this paper we investigate the influence of a constant external magnetic field on the finite-temperature phase structure and the chiral properties of a simplified lattice model for QCD. We assume an SU(2) gauge symm...
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Observing instantons directly on the lattice without cooling: Based on the study of the simple Abelian Higgs model in $1+1$ dimensions we will present a new method to identify and localize extended instantons. The idea is to measure the topological charge on regions somewhat larger than the extended instantons so as to...
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Staggered Baryon Operators with Flavor SU(3) Quantum Numbers: The construction of the first baryon operators for staggered lattice QCD exploited the taste symmetry to emulate physical quark flavor; contemporary 2+1 flavor simulations explicitly include three physical quark flavors and necessitate interpreting a valence...
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Renormalization of the effective theory for heavy quarks at small velocity: The slope of the Isgur-Wise function at the normalization point, $\xi^{(1)}(1)$,is one of the basic parameters for the extraction of the $CKM$ matrix element $V_{cb}$ from exclusive semileptonic decay data. A method for measuring this paramet...
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Power-counting theorem for staggered fermions: Lattice power-counting is extended to QCD with staggered fermions. As preparation, the difficulties encountered by Reisz's original formulation of the lattice power-counting theorem are illustrated. One of the assumptions that is used in his proof does not hold for stagger...
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Universal critical behavior and the transition temperature in (2+1)-flavor QCD: We discuss the universal critical behavior in (2+1)-flavor QCD by analyzing lattice data from improved staggered fermions generated by the HotQCD Collaboration. We present recent results from two different lattice discretizations and vari...
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Computing the static potential using non-string-like trial states: We present a method for computing the static quark-antiquark potential, which is not based on Wilson loops, but where the trial states are formed by eigenvector components of the covariant lattice Laplace operator. We have tested this method in SU(2) Ya...
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B- and D-meson decay constants from three-flavor lattice QCD: We calculate the leptonic decay constants of B_{(s)} and D_{(s)} mesons in lattice QCD using staggered light quarks and Fermilab bottom and charm quarks. We compute the heavy-light meson correlation functions on the MILC asqtad-improved staggered gauge confi...
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Light hadron spectrum and quark masses: Recent developments in lattice QCD calculations of the light hadron spectrum and quark masses are reviewed.
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Calculating the Two-photon Contribution to $π^0 \rightarrow e^+ e^-$ Decay Amplitude: We develop a new method that allows us to deal with two-photon intermediate states in a lattice QCD calculation. We apply this method to perform a first-principles calculation of the $\pi^0 \rightarrow e^+ e^-$ decay amplitude. Both...
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Operator product expansion and the short distance behavior of 3-flavor baryon potentials: The short distance behavior of baryon-baryon potentials defined through Nambu-Bethe-Salpeter wave functions is investigated using the operator product expansion. In a previous analysis of the nucleon-nucleon case, corresponding ...
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Current Status of Indirect CP Violation in Neutral Kaon System: In the standard model (SM), the CP violation is introduced through a single phase in the CKM matrix. The neutral kaon system is one of the most precise channels to test how the SM theory describes the experiment data such as $\epsilon_K$ accurately. The in...
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On the entropy bound of three dimensional simplicial gravity: It is proven that the partition function of 3-dimensional simplicial gravity has an exponential upper bound with the following assumption: any three dimensional sphere $S^3$ is constructed by repeated identification of neighboring links and neighboring trian...
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Density of states for gravitational waves: We present ongoing investigations of the first-order confinement transition of a composite dark matter model, to predict the resulting spectrum of gravitational waves. To avoid long autocorrelations at the first-order transition, we employ the Logarithmic Linear Relaxation (LL...
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Mitigating topological freezing using out-of-equilibrium simulations: Motivated by the recently-established connection between Jarzynski's equality and the theoretical framework of Stochastic Normalizing Flows, we investigate a protocol relying on out-of-equilibrium lattice Monte Carlo simulations to mitigate the infam...
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Higgs boson mass bounds in the presence of a very heavy fourth quark generation: We study the effect of a potential fourth quark generation on the upper and lower Higgs boson mass bounds. This investigation is based on the numerical evaluation of a chirally invariant lattice Higgs-Yukawa model emulating the same Higg...
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Using Gradient Flow to Renormalise Matrix Elements for Meson Mixing and Lifetimes: Neutral meson mixing and meson lifetimes are theory-side parametrised in terms four-quark operators which can be determined by calculating weak decay matrix elements using lattice Quantum Chromodynamics. While calculations of meson mix...
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