Friday, February 10, 2012

1202.1867 (Philippe de Forcrand et al.)

Numerical properties of staggered quarks with a taste-dependent mass
term
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Philippe de Forcrand, Aleksi Kurkela, Marco Panero
The numerical properties of staggered Dirac operators with a taste-dependent
mass term proposed by Adams [1,2] and by Hoelbling [3] are compared with those
of ordinary staggered and Wilson Dirac operators. In the free limit and on
(quenched) interacting configurations, we consider their topological
properties, their spectrum, and the resulting pion mass. Although we also
consider the spectral structure, topological properties, locality, and
computational cost of an overlap operator with a staggered kernel, we call
attention to the possibility of using the Adams and Hoelbling operators without
the overlap construction. In particular, the Hoelbling operator could be used
to simulate two degenerate flavors without additive mass renormalization, and
thus without fine-tuning in the chiral limit.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1867

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