1302.6918 (Ting-Wai Chiu)

Simulation of Lattice QCD with Domain-Wall Fermions    [PDF]

Ting-Wai Chiu

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the fundamental theory for the interaction between quarks and gluons. It manifests as the short-range strong interaction inside the nucleus, and plays an important role in the evolution of the early universe, from the quark-gluon phase to the hadron phase. To solve QCD is a grand challenge, since it requires very large-scale numerical simulations of the discretized action of QCD on the 4-dimensional space-time lattice. Moreover, since quarks are relativistic fermions, the 5-th dimension is introduced such that massless quarks with exact chiral symmetry can be realized at finite lattice spacing, on the boundaries of the 5-th dimension, the so-called domain-wall fermion (DWF). In this talk, we discuss how to simulate lattice QCD with DWF such that the chiral symmetry can be preserved optimally with a finite extent in the 5-th dimension, and to outline the simulations which have been performing by the TWQCD Collaboration, and also to present some recent physical results.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6918