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Temperature dependence of shear viscosity of $SU(3)$--gluodynamics within lattice simulation: In this paper we study the shear viscosity temperature dependence of $SU(3)$--gluodynamics within lattice simulation. To do so, we measure the correlation functions of energy-momentum tensor in the range of temperatures $T/T...
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Perturbative renormalization of moments of quark momentum, helicity and transversity distributions with overlap and Wilson fermions: Using overlap as well as Wilson fermions, we have computed the one-loop renormalization factors of ten non-singlet operators which measure the third moment of quark momentum and helicit...
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Roper Resonance in 2+1 Flavor QCD: The low-lying even-parity states of the nucleon are explored in lattice QCD using the PACS-CS collaboration 2+1-flavor dynamical-QCD gauge-field configurations made available through the International Lattice Datagrid (ILDG). The established correlation-matrix approach is used, in whi...
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P-wave heavy-light mesons using NRQCD and D234: The masses of S- and P-wave heavy-light mesons are computed in quenched QCD using a classically and tadpole-improved action on anisotropic lattices. Of particular interest are the splittings among P-wave states, which have not yet been resolved experimentally; even the or...
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Non-perturbative renormalization of left-left four-fermion operators in quenched lattice QCD: We define a family of Schroedinger Functional renormalization schemes for the four-quark multiplicatively renormalizable operators of the $\Delta F = 1$ and $\Delta F = 2$ effective weak Hamiltonians. Using the lattice regul...
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Quark mass dependence of the low-lying charmed mesons at one loop in HH$χ$PT: We study the light and heavy quark mass dependence of the low-lying charmed mesons in the framework of one-loop HH$\chi$PT. The low energy constants are determined by analyzing the available lattice data from different LQCD simulations. Mod...
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Exact Chiral Fermions and Finite Density on Lattice: Any mu^2-divergence is shown analytically to be absent for a class of actions for Overlap and Domain Wall Fermions with nonzero chemical potential. All such actions are, however, shown to violate the chiral invariance. While the parameter M of these actions can be sh...
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Antisymmetric and other subleading corrections to scaling in the local potential approximation: For systems in the universality class of the three-dimensional Ising model we compute the critical exponents in the local potential approximation (LPA), that is, in the framework of the Wegner-Houghton equation. We are mos...
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Lattice QCD investigation of a doubly-bottom $\bar{b} \bar{b} u d$ tetraquark with quantum numbers $I(J^P) = 0(1^+)$: We use lattice QCD to investigate the spectrum of the $\bar{b} \bar{b} u d$ four-quark system with quantum numbers $I(J^P) = 0(1^+)$. We use five different gauge-link ensembles with $2+1$ flavors of d...
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Stable solvers for real-time Complex Langevin: This study explores the potential of modern implicit solvers for stochastic partial differential equations in the simulation of real-time complex Langevin dynamics. Not only do these methods offer asymptotic stability, rendering the issue of runaway solution moot, but they...
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Note on the Lattice Fermion Chiral Symmetry Group: The group structure of the variant chiral symmetry discovered by Luscher in the Ginsparg-Wilson description of lattice chiral fermions is analyzed. It is shown that the group contains an infinite number of linearly independent symmetry generators, and the Lie algebra i...
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Intrinsic quark transverse momentum in the nucleon from lattice QCD: A better understanding of transverse momentum (k_T-) dependent quark distributions in a hadron is needed to interpret several experimentally observed large angular asymmetries and to clarify the fundamental role of gauge links in non-abelian gauge the...
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Singularities of QCD in the complex chemical potential plane: We study the thermodynamic singularities of QCD in the complex chemical potential plane by a numerical simulation of lattice QCD, and discuss a method to understand the nature of the QCD phase transition at finite density from the information of the singular...
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Longitudinal and transverse meson correlators in the deconfined phase from the lattice: It has long been known that QCD undergoes a deconfining phase transition at high temperature. One of the consequent features of this new, quark-gluon phase is that hadrons become unbounded. In this talk meson correlation functions...
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A new lattice measurement for potentials between static SU(3) sources: In this article, a new calculation of static potentials between sources of different representations in SU(3) gauge group is presented. The results of author's previous study \cite{Deld00} at the smallest lattice spacing $a_{s}\simeq0.11$~ fm are sh...
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Magnetic properties of light nuclei from lattice QCD: After a short review of Lattice QCD methodology and techniques, I summarize recent results of Lattice QCD calculations of the interactions of nucleons and light nuclei with magnetic fields at pion masses of 805 MeV and 450 MeV. Interestingly, the magnetic moments ar...
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Reweighting Lefschetz Thimbles: We present a novel reweighting technique to calculate the relative weights in the Lefschetz thimble decomposition of a path integral. Our method is put to work using a $U(1)$ one-link model providing for a suitable testing ground and sharing many features with realistic gauge theories wi...
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Abelian Dyons in the Maximal Abelian Projection of SU(2) Gluodynamics: Correlations of the topological charge Q, the electric current J^e and the magnetic current J^m in SU(2) lattice gauge theory in the Maximal Abelian projection are investigated. It occurs that the correlator <<QJ^e J^m>> is nonzero for a wide range ...
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Extracting excited states from lattice QCD: the Roper resonance: We present a new method for extracting excited states from a single two-point correlation function calculated on the lattice. Our method simply combines the correlation function evaluated at different time slices so as to ``subtract'' the leading exponent...
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Electromagnetic properties of doubly charmed baryons in Lattice QCD: We compute the electromagnetic properties of \Xi_cc baryons in 2+1 flavor Lattice QCD. By measuring the electric charge and magnetic form factors of \Xi_cc baryons, we extract the magnetic moments, charge and magnetic radii as well as the \Xi_cc \Xi_c...
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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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Quenched hadron spectroscopy with improved staggered quark action: We investigate light hadron spectroscopy with an improved quenched staggered quark action. We compare the results obtained with an improved gauge plus an improved quark action, an improved gauge plus standard quark action, and the standard gauge plus st...
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Non-perturbative improvement of bilinears in unquenched QCD: We describe how the improvement of quark bilinears generalizes from quenched to unquenched QCD, and discuss which of the additional improvement constants can be determined using Ward Identities.
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In search of a scaling scalar glueball: Anisotropic lattices are an efficient means of studying the glueballs of QCD, however problems arise with simulations of the lightest, scalar state. The mass is strongly dependent on the lattice spacing, even when a mean-field improved gluon action is used. The nature and cause o...
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Finite size scaling in CP(N-1) models: Finite size effects in Euclidean ${\rm CP}^{N-1}$ models with periodic boundary conditions are investigated by means of the $1/N$ expansion and by Monte Carlo simulations. Analytic and numerical results for magnetic susceptibility and correlation length are compared and found to a...
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Determination of the mass anomalous dimension for $N_f=12$ and $N_f=9$ SU($3$) gauge theories: We show the numerical simulation result for the mass anomalous dimension of the SU($3$) gauge theory coupled to $N_f = 12$ fundamental fermions. We use two independent methods, namely the step scaling method and the hypersc...
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Contribution of the charm quark to the ΔI=1/2 rule: We report on the progress of our ongoing project to quantify the role of the charm quark in the non-leptonic decay of a kaon into two pions. The effect of its associated mass scale in the dynamics underlying the \Delta I = 1/2 rule can be studied by monitoring the dep...
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Spectrum of Mesons and Baryons with $b$ Quarks: We present highlights of the spectrum of mesons and baryons calculated using NRQCD for heavy quarks and tadpole improved clover action for the light quarks.
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Instantaneous interquark potential in generalized Landau gauge in SU(3) lattice QCD: a possible gauge for the quark potential model: We investigate "instantaneous interquark potential", an interesting gauge-dependent quantity defined from the spatial correlator $<\mathrm{Tr} [U_4^\dagger(s)U_4(s')]>$ of the temporal ...
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Vacuum alignment and lattice artifacts: When a subgroup of the flavor symmetry group of a gauge theory is weakly coupled to additional gauge fields, the vacuum tends to align such that the gauged subgroup is unbroken. At the same time, the lattice discretization typically breaks the flavor symmetry explicitly, and can ...
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Broken Symmetries from Minimally Doubled Fermions: Novel chirally symmetric fermion actions containing the minimum amount of fermion doubling have been recently proposed in the literature. We study the symmetries and renormalization of these actions and find that in each case, discrete symmetries, such as parity and ti...
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Proton and neutron electromagnetic form factors from lattice QCD: The electromagnetic form factors of the proton and the neutron are computed within lattice QCD using simulations with quarks masses fixed to their physical values. Both connected and disconnected contributions are computed. We analyze two new ensembles o...
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Remarks on abelian dominance: We used a renormalisation group based smoothing to address two questions related to abelian dominance. Smoothing drastically reduces short distance fluctuations but it preserves the long distance physical properties of the SU(2) configurations. This enabled us to extract the abelian heavy-...
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Entanglement entropy of SU(3) Yang-Mills theory: We calculate the entanglement entropy using a SU(3) quenched lattice gauge simulation. We find that the entanglement entropy scales as $1/l^2$ at small $l$ as in the conformal field theory. Here $l$ is the size of the system, whose degrees of freedom is left after the ot...
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't Hooft loop and the phases of SU(2) LGT: We analyze the vacuum structure of SU(2) lattice gauge theories in D=2,3,4, concentrating on the stability of 't Hooft loops. High precision calculations have been performed in D=3; similar results hold also for D=4 and D=2. We discuss the impact of our findings on the continu...
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Real-Time-Evolution of Heavy Quarks in the Glasma: We introduce a novel real-time formulation of lattice NRQCD designed for simulations in the background of an highly occupied gluon field. By evolving quarks in the background of a dynamically evolving gluon field we computed the time-evolution of heavy-quarkonium spect...
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Decay constants of B and D mesons from improved relativistic lattice QCD with two flavours of sea quarks: We present a calculation of the B and D meson decay constants in lattice QCD with two (Nf=2) flavours of light dynamical quarks, using an O(a)-improved Wilson action for both light and heavy quarks and a renormal...
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Lambda-parameter of lattice QCD with the overlap-Dirac operator: We compute the ratio $\Lambda_L/\Lambda_{\bar{MS}}$ between the scale parameter $\Lambda_L$, associated with a lattice formulation of QCD using the overlap-Dirac operator, and $\Lambda_{\bar{MS}}$ of the $\bar{\rm MS}$ renormalization scheme. To this end,...
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Behavior and finite-size effects of the sixth order cumulant in the three-dimensional Ising universality class: The high-order cumulants of conserved charges are suggested to be sensitive observables to search for the critical point of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This has been calculated to the sixth order in exper...
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Simulating Yang-Mills theories with a complex coupling: We propose a novel simulation strategy for Yang-Mills theories with a complex coupling, based on the Lefschetz thimble decomposition. We envisage, that the approach developed in the present work, can also be adapted to QCD at finite density, and real time simulati...
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D-branes, Wilson Bags, and Coherent Topological Charge Structure in QCD: Monte Carlo studies of pure glue SU(3) gauge theory using the overlap-based topological charge operator have revealed a laminar structure in the QCD vacuum consisting of extended, thin, coherent, locally 3-dimensional sheets of topological charge ...
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Perfect discretizations of differential operators: We investigate an approach for the numerical solution of differential equations which is based on the perfect discretization of actions. Such perfect discretizations show up at the fixed points of renormalization group transformations. This technique of integrating out...
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Deconfinement Phase Transition in Bosonic BMN Model at General Coupling: We present our analysis of the deconfinement phase transition in the bosonic BMN matrix model. The model is investigated using a non-perturbative lattice framework. We used the Polyakov loop as the order parameter to monitor the phase transition, ...
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Berry phase in lattice QCD: We propose the lattice QCD calculation of the Berry phase which is defined by the ground state of a single fermion. We perform the ground-state projection of a single-fermion propagator, construct the Berry link variable on a momentum-space lattice, and calculate the Berry phase. As the firs...
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Minimally doubled fermions and their renormalization: Minimally doubled fermions have been proposed as a strictly local discretization of the QCD quark action, which also preserves chiral symmetry at finite cut-off. We study the renormalization and mixing properties of two particular realizations of minimally doubled f...
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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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The pion form factor on the lattice at zero and finite temperature: We calculate the electromagnetic form factor of the pion in quenched lattice QCD. The non-perturbatively improved Sheikoleslami-Wohlert lattice action is used together with the consistently O(a) improved current. We calculate the pion form factor for m...
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Semi-leptonic decays of heavy mesons and the Isgur-Wise function in quenched lattice QCD: The form factors for the semi-leptonic B->D and B->D* decays are evaluated in quenched lattice QCD at two different values of the coupling, beta=6.0 and 6.2. The action and the operators are fully O(a) non-perturbatively improve...
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Thermodynamics of Two Flavor QCD to Sixth Order in Quark Chemical Potential: We present results of a simulation of 2-flavor QCD on a 4x16^3 lattice using p4-improved staggered fermions with bare quark mass m/T=0.4. Derivatives of the thermodynamic grand canonical partition function Z(V,T,mu_u,mu_d) with respect to ch...
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Taste non-Goldstone, flavor-charged pseudo-Goldstone boson masses in staggered chiral perturbation theory: We calculate the masses of taste non-Goldstone pions and kaons in staggered chiral perturbation theory through next-to-leading order in the standard power counting. The results can be used to quantitatively unde...
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Comparison of different source calculations in two-nucleon channel at large quark mass: We investigate a systematic error coming from higher excited state contributions in the energy shift of light nucleus in the two-nucleon channel by comparing two different source calculations with the exponential and wall sources....
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Moments of parton evolution probabilities on the lattice within the Schroedinger functional scheme: We define, within the Schroedinger functional scheme (SF), the matrix elements of the twist-2 operators corresponding to the first two moments of non-singlet parton densities. We perform a lattice one-loop calculation ...
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O(4) scaling analysis in two-flavor QCD at finite temperature and density with improved Wilson quarks: We study the curvature of the chiral transition/crossover line between the low-temperature hadronic phase and the high-temperature quark-gluon-plasma phase at low densities, performing simulations of two-flavor QCD ...
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Status of the MILC calculation of electromagnetic contributions to pseudoscalar masses: We calculate pseudoscalar masses on gauge configurations containing the effects of 2+1 flavors of dynamical asqtad quarks and quenched electromagnetism. The lattice spacings vary from 0.12 to 0.06 fm. The masses are fit with stagg...
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Spectroscopy of two dimensional N=2 Super Yang Mills theory: Albeit the standard model is the most successful model of particles physics, it still has some theoretical shortcomings, for instance the hierarchy problem, the absence of dark matter, etc. Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model could be a possible s...
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Fast algorithms for simulating chiral fermions in U(1)lattice gauge theory: In order to develop fast inversion algorithms we have used overlap solvers in two dimensions. Lattice QED theory with U(1) group symmetry in two dimensional space-times dimensions has always been a testing ground for algorithms. By the other ...
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Lattice QCD and heavy ion collisions: a review of recent progress: In the last few years, numerical simulations of QCD on the lattice have reached a new level of accuracy. A wide range of thermodynamic quantities is now available in the continuum limit and for physical quark masses. This allows a comparison with measur...
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Hyper-Systolic Parallel Computing: A new class of parallel algorithms is introduced that can achieve a complexity of O(n^3/2) with respect to the interprocessor communication, in the exact computation of systems with pairwise mutual interactions of all elements. Hitherto, conventional methods exhibit a communicational ...
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Axial and tensor charge of the nucleon with dynamical fermions: We present preliminary results for the axial and tensor charge of the nucleon obtained from simulations with N_f=2 clover fermions. A comparison with chiral perturbation theory is attempted.
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Monte Carlo overrelaxation for SU(N) gauge theories: The standard approach to Monte Carlo simulations of SU(N) Yang-Mills theories updates successive SU(2) subgroups of each SU(N) link. We follow up on an old proposal of Creutz, to perform overrelaxation in the full SU(N) group instead, and show that it is more efficie...
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Chromo-electric screening length in 2+1 flavor QCD: We study Polyakov loop as well as correlators of real and imaginary parts of the Polyakov loop in 2+1 flavor QCD at finite temperature. We use hypercubic (HYP) smearing to improve the signal in the lattice calculations and to obtain reliable results for the correlator...
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A Critical Surface of Chiral-invariant System with Gauge Boson and Fermions: In the chirally-invariant context of the $U_{em}(1)$ gauge interaction and four-fermion interactions for ordinary and mirror fermions, the Schwinger-Dyson equation for the fermion self-energy function is studied on a lattice. We find that a ...
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Predictions from Lattice QCD: In the past year, we calculated with lattice QCD three quantities that were unknown or poorly known. They are the $q^2$ dependence of the form factor in semileptonic $D\to Kl\nu$ decay, the decay constant of the $D$ meson, and the mass of the $B_c$ meson. In this talk, we summarize these c...
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Flavor symmetry breaking in lattice QCD with a mixed action: We study the phase structure of mixed-action QCD with two Wilson sea quarks and any number of chiral valence quarks (and ghosts), starting from the chiral lagrangian. A priori, the effective theory allows for a rich phase structure, including a phase with a c...
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Semileptonic B to D decays at nonzero recoil with 2+1 flavors of improved staggered quarks: The Fermilab Lattice-MILC collaboration is completing a comprehensive program of heavy-light physics on the MILC (2+1)-flavor asqtad ensembles with lattice spacings as small as 0.045 fm and light-to-strange-quark mass ratios a...
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Detecting Dual Superconductivity in the Ground State of Gauge Theories - II: A monopole creation operator is constructed: its vacuum expectation value is an order parameter for dual superconductivity in that, if different from zero it signals spontaneous breaking of the U(1) symmetry corresponding to monopole charge ...
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Pion Distribution Amplitudes in the Continuum Limit: We present a lattice-QCD calculation of the pion distribution amplitudes using large-momentum effective theory (LaMET). Our calculation is carried out using five ensembles with 2+1+1 flavors of highly improved staggered quarks (HISQ), generated by MILC collaboration,...
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On the lattice construction of electroweak gauge theory: Based on the Ginsparg-Wilson relation, a gauge invariant formulation of electroweak SU(2)xU(1) gauge theory on the lattice is considered. If the hypercharge gauge coupling is turned off in the vacuum sector of the U(1) gauge fields, the theory consists of four le...
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A quadrature-based eigensolver with a Krylov subspace method for shifted linear systems for Hermitian eigenproblems in lattice QCD: We consider a quadrature-based eigensolver to find eigenpairs of Hermitian matrices arising in lattice quantum chromodynamics. To reduce the computational cost for finding eigenpairs of ...
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Towards Radiative Transitions in Charmonium: We present preliminary calculations towards radiative transitions in charmonium using anisotropic $N_f = 2 + 1$ dynamical ensembles generated by the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration. With the use of newer technologies we aim to investigate transitions between states, including ...
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Implementation of C* boundary conditions in the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm: In the study of QCD dynamics, C* boundary conditions are physically relevant in certain cases. In this paper we study the implementation of these boundary conditions in the lattice formulation of full QCD with staggered fermions. In particu...
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Mass estimates of the SU(2) $0^{++}$ glueball from spectral methods: The estimation of the K\"all\'en-Lehmann spectral density from gauge invariant lattice QCD two point correlation functions is proposed, and explored via an inversion strategy based on Tikhonov regularisation. We test the method on a mesonic toy model,...
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Present and future prospects for lattice QCD calculations of matrix elements for nEDM: A status report on the calculations of the contribution of four CP violating operators, the $\Theta$-term, the quark EDM, the chromo EDM and the Weinberg operator to the neutron EDM are presented. At this time, there exit precise p...
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Glueballs on the three-sphere: We study the non-perturbative effects of the global features of the configuration space for SU(2) gauge theory on the three-sphere. The strategy is to reduce the full problem to an effective theory for the dynamics of the low-energy modes. By explicitly integrating out the high-energy mod...
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Discrete Symmetry Enhancement in Nonabelian Models and the Existence of Asymptotic Freedom: We study the universality between a discrete spin model with icosahedral symmetry and the O(3) model in two dimensions. For this purpose we study numerically the renormalized two-point functions of the spin field and the four ...
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Physical and unphysical effects in the mixed SU(2)/SO(3) gauge theory: We investigate possible problems with universality in lattice gauge theory where a mixed fundamental SU(2) and SO(3)-invariant gauge group is used: the (second order) finite temperature phase transition becomes involved with first order effects with...
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Scaling behavior at the tricritical point in the fermion-gauge-scalar model: We investigate a strongly coupled U(1) gauge theory with fermions and scalars on the lattice and analyze whether the continuum limit might be a renormalizable theory with dynamical mass generation. Most attention is paid to the phase with br...
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Thermal mass and dispersion relations of quarks in the deconfined phase of quenched QCD: Temporal quark correlation functions are analyzed in quenched lattice QCD for two values of temperature above the critical temperature (Tc) for deconfinement, T=1.5Tc and 3Tc. A two-pole ansatz for the quark spectral function is ...
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Chiral transition and monopole percolation in lattice scalar QED with quenched fermions: We study the interplay between topological observables and chiral and Higgs transitions in lattice scalar QED with quenched fermions. Emphasis is put on the chiral transition line and magnetic monopole percolation at strong gauge...
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Attractive $N$-$φ$ Interaction and Two-Pion Tail from Lattice QCD near Physical Point: First results on the interaction between the $\phi$-meson and the nucleon ($N$) are presented based on the ($2+1$)-flavor lattice QCD simulations with nearly physical quark masses. Using the HAL QCD method, the spacetime correlatio...
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Gluons in Two-Color QCD at High Baryon Density: Landau gauge longitudinal and transverse gluon propagators are studied in lattice QCD with gauge group $SU(2)$ at varying temperature and quark density. In particular, it is found that the longitudinal propagator decreases with increasing quark chemical potential at all t...
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Remark on the energy-momentum tensor in the lattice formulation of 4D $\mathcal{N}=1$ SYM: In a recent paper, arXiv:1209.2473 \cite{Suzuki:2012gi}, we presented a possible definition of the energy-momentum tensor in the lattice formulation of the four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric Yang--Mills theory, tha...
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Nature of the $a_1$ meson in lattice quantum chromodynamics studied with chiral fermions: We study the $a_1$ meson using a quenched lattice quantum chromodynamics simulation with the truncated overlap fermions formalism based on the domain wall fermions. The obtained lightest mass of the $a_1$ meson, 1272(45) MeV, is...
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Lattice investigations of the chimera baryon spectrum in the Sp(4) gauge theory: We report the results of lattice numerical studies of the Sp(4) gauge theory coupled to fermions (hyperquarks) transforming in the fundamental and two-index antisymmetric representations of the gauge group. This strongly-coupled theory i...
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A Study of Charmonium Systems across the Deconfinement Transition: We present results from lattice studies of charmonium systems near the deconfinement transition temperature. On quenched isotropic lattices with lattice spacings between 0.02 and 0.05 fm, bar{q} q systems with quark masses close to the charm mass and wi...
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Theoretical Developments in Lattice Gauge Theory for Applications in Double-beta Decay Processes and Quantum Simulation: Double beta decays are rare nuclear processes that can occur in two modes: two-neutrino double beta decay, observed in the Standard Model, and neutrinoless double beta decay, a hypothetical process...
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Canonical Demon Monte Carlo Renormalization Group: We describe a new method to compute renormalized coupling constants in a Monte Carlo renormalization group calculation. The method can be used for a general class of models, e.g., lattice spin or gauge models. The basic idea is to simulate a joint system of block spins...
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Equation of state for pure SU(3) gauge theory with renormalization group improved action: A lattice study of the equation of state for pure SU(3) gauge theory using a renormalization-group (RG) improved action is presented. The energy density and pressure are calculated on a $16^3\times 4$ and a $32^3\times 8$ lattic...
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A Study of Meson Correlators at Finite Temperature: We present results for mesonic propagators in temporal and spatial directions at T below and above the deconfining transition in quenched QCD. Anisotropic lattices are used to get enough information in the temporal direction. We use the Wilson fermion action for light...
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Mean-Field Gauge Interactions in Five Dimensions II. The Orbifold: We study Gauge-Higgs Unification in five dimensions on the lattice by means of the mean-field expansion. We formulate it for the case of an SU(2) pure gauge theory and orbifold boundary conditions along the extra dimension, which explicitly break the ga...
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Central Dominance and the Confinement Mechanism in Gluodynamics: New topological objects, which we call center monopoles, naturally arise in the Maximal Center Projection of SU(3) gluodynamics. The condensate of the center monopoles is the order parameter of the theory.
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Exploring the QCD phase diagram with three flavors of Möbius domain wall fermions: We present an update on the study of the QCD phase transition with 3 flavors of M\"obius domain wall fermions at zero baryon density. We performed simulations on lattices of size $36^3\times12\times16$ and $24^3\times12\times32$ with a...
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Rediscovery of Numerical Lüscher's Formula from the Neural Network: We present that by predicting the spectrum in discrete space from the phase shift in continuous space, the neural network can remarkably reproduce the numerical L\"uscher's formula to a high precision. The model-independent property of the L\"uscher's ...
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Thermodynamics of heavy-light hadrons: Ratios of cumulants of conserved net charge fluctuations are sensitive to the degrees of freedom that are carriers of the corresponding quantum numbers in different phases of strong interaction matter. We calculate second and fourth order cumulants of net charm and strange fluctua...
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Two-nucleon scattering in multiple partial waves: We determine scattering phase shifts for S,P,D, and F partial wave channels in two-nucleon systems using lattice QCD methods. We use a generalization of Luscher's finite volume method to determine infinite volume phase shifts from a set of finite volume ground- and exci...
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Determinant of a new fermionic action on a lattice - (I): We investigate, analytically and numerically, the fermion determinant of a new action on a (1+1)-dimensional Euclidean lattice. In this formulation the discrete chiral symmetry is preserved and the number of fermion components is a half of that of Kogut-Susskind...
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Estimating the Unquenched Strange Quark Mass from the Lattice Axial Ward Identity: We present a determination of the strange quark mass for two flavours (nf=2) of light dynamical quarks using the axial Ward identity. The calculations are performed on the lattice using O(a) improved Wilson fermions and include a fully...
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SU(N) polynomial integrals and some applications: We use the method of the Weingarten functions to evaluate SU(N) integrals of the polynomial type. As an application we calculate various one-link integrals for lattice gauge and spin SU(N) theories.
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High-loop perturbative renormalization constants for Lattice QCD (I): finite constants for Wilson quark currents: We present a high order perturbative computation of the renormalization constants Z_V, Z_A and of the ratio Z_P/Z_S for Wilson fermions. The computational setup is the one provided by the RI'-MOM scheme. ...
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Multicanonical Spin Glass Simulations: We report a Monte Carlo simulation of the $2D$ Edwards-Anderson spin glass model within the recently introduced multicanonical ensemble. Replica on lattices of size $L^2$ up to $L=48$ are investigated. Once a true groundstate is found, we are able to give a lower bound on the numb...
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