The Low-lying Dirac Eigenmodes from Domain Wall Fermions

Abstract

We calculate the low-lying eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the hermitian domain wall Dirac operator on various gauge backgrounds by Ritz minimization. The mass dependence of these eigenvalues is studied to extract the physical 4 dimensional $\lambda$, whose spectral density is related to $<\bar{\psi} \psi>$ through the Banks-Casher relation, and $\delta m$, which represents the effects of the residual chiral symmetry breaking in domain wall formalism on a per eigenmode basis. The topological structure of the underlying gauge field is examined by measuring the $\Gamma_5$ matrix elements between the low-lying eigenmodes.