From chiral symmetry breaking to conformality in SU(2) gauge theoryWe compute the spectrum of SU(2) gauge theory with two, four or six Dirac fermions in the fundamental representation of the gauge group. We investigate the scaling of the meson masses as a function…Alessandro Amato, Viljami Leino, Kari Rummukainen et al.·Jun 19, 2018SaveLearn
AVX-512 extension to OpenQCD 1.6We publish an extension of openQCD-1.6 with AVX-512 vector instructions using Intel intrinsics. Recent Intel processors support extended instruction sets with operations on 512-bit wide vectors,…Ed Bennett, Mark Dawson, Michele Mesiti et al.·Jun 15, 2018SaveLearn
Localization of topological charge density near Tc in quenched QCD with Wilson flowWe smear quenched lattice QCD ensembles with lattice volume 323× 8 by using Wilson flow. Six ensembles at temperature near the critical temperature Tc corresponding to the critical inverse…You-Hao Zou, Jian-Bo Zhang, Guang-Yi Xiong·Jun 13, 2018SaveLearn
Gluon propagator on a centre-vortex backgroundThe impact of SU(3) centre vortices on the gluon propagator in Landau gauge is investigated on original, vortex-removed and vortex-only lattice gauge field configurations. Vortex identification is…James C. Biddle, Waseem Kamleh, Derek B. Leinweber·Jun 12, 2018SaveLearn
Single flavour optimisations to Hybrid Monte CarloIt has become increasingly important to include one or more individual flavours of dynamical fermion in lattice QCD simulations. This is due in part to the advent of QCD+QED calculations, where…Taylor Haar, Waseem Kamleh, James Zanotti et al.·Jun 12, 2018SaveLearn
Precise predictions of charmed-bottom hadrons from lattice QCDWe report the ground state masses of hadrons containing at least one charm and one bottom quark using lattice quantum chromodynamics. These include mesons with spin (J)-parity (P) quantum numbers…Nilmani Mathur, M. Padmanath, Sourav Mondal·Jun 11, 2018SaveLearn
Charmonium resonances on the latticeThe nature of resonances and excited states near decay thresholds is encoded in scattering amplitudes, which can be extracted from single-particle and multiparticle correlators in finite volumes.…G. S. Bali, S. Collins, D. Mohler et al.·Jun 7, 2018SaveLearn
Comment on Implications of new physics in the decays Bc (J/ψ,ηc)τνAs part of a study BSM corrections to leptonic decays of the Bc meson, Tran et al. (arXiv:1801.06927) use the covariant confining quark model (CCQM) to estimate the matrix element of the…Christine Davies, Craig McNeile·Jun 7, 2018SaveLearn
Two- and three-body interactions in φ4 theory from lattice simulationsWe calculate the one-, two- and three-particle energy levels for different lattice volumes in the complex φ4 theory on the lattice. We argue that the exponentially suppressed finite-volume…Fernando Romero-López, Akaki Rusetsky, Carsten Urbach·Jun 6, 2018SaveLearn
A lattice QCD study of pion-nucleon scattering in the Roper channelWe present a lattice QCD study of the puzzling positive-parity nucleon channel, where the Roper resonance N*(1440) resides in experiment. The study is based on an ensemble of gauge configurations…Luka Leskovec, Christian B. Lang, M. Padmanath et al.·Jun 6, 2018SaveLearn
Infinite lattice models by expansion with a non-Gaussian initial approximationRecently, a convergent series employing a non-Gaussian initial approximation was constructed and shown to be an effective computational tool for the finite size lattice models with a polynomial…Aleksandr Ivanov, Vasily Sazonov·Jun 5, 2018SaveLearn
Phase Unwrapping and One-Dimensional Sign ProblemsSign problems in path integrals arise when different field configurations contribute with different signs or phases. Phase unwrapping describes a family of signal processing techniques in which phase…William Detmold, Gurtej Kanwar, Michael L. Wagman·Jun 5, 2018SaveLearn
The two-dimensional twisted reduced principal chiral model revisitedMotivated by our previous study of the Twisted Eguchi-Kawai model for non minimal twists, we re-examined the behaviour of the reduced version of the two dimensional principal chiral model. We show…Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo, Masanori Okawa·Jun 5, 2018SaveLearn
Nonperturbative Renormalization of Operators in Near-Conformal Systems Using Gradient FlowsWe propose a continuous real space renormalization group transformation based on gradient flow, allowing for a numerical study of renormalization without the need for costly ensemble matching. We…Andrea Carosso, Anna Hasenfratz, Ethan T. Neil·Jun 4, 2018SaveLearn
χtop(T Tc) in pure-glue QCD through reweightingWe calculate the topological susceptibility at 2.5 Tc and 4.1 Tc in SU(3) pure Yang-Mills theory. We define topology with the help of gradient flow and we largely overcome the problem of poor…P. Thomas Jahn, Guy D. Moore, Daniel Robaina·Jun 4, 2018SaveLearn
Euclidean versus Minkowski short distanceIn this note we reexamine the possibility of extracting parton distribution functions from lattice simulations. We discuss the case of quasi-parton distribution functions, the possibility of using…Giancarlo Rossi, Massimo Testa·Jun 3, 2018SaveLearn
A percent-level determination of the nucleon axial coupling from Quantum ChromodynamicsThe axial coupling of the nucleon, gA, is the strength of its coupling to the weak axial current of the Standard Model of particle physics, in much the same way as the…Chia Cheng Chang, Amy Nicholson, Enrico Rinaldi et al.·May 30, 2018SaveLearn
Casimir effect in Yang-Mills theoryWe study, for the first time, the Casimir effect in non-Abelian gauge theory using first-principle numerical simulations. Working in two spatial dimensions at zero temperature we find that closely…M. N. Chernodub, V. A. Goy, A. V. Molochkov et al.·May 30, 2018SaveLearn
Estimating χtop Lattice Artifacts from Flowed SU(2) CaloronsLattice computations of the high-temperature topological susceptibility of QCD receive lattice-spacing corrections and suffer from systematics arising from the type and depth of gradient flow. We…Peter Thomas Jahn, Guy D. Moore, Daniel Robaina·May 29, 2018SaveLearn
Image-processing the topological charge density in the CP(N-1) modelWe study the topological charge density distribution using the two-dimensional CPN-1 model. We numerically compute not only the topological susceptibility, which is a spatially global quantity…Yuya Abe, Kenji Fukushima, Yoshimasa Hidaka et al.·May 28, 2018SaveLearn
Weak decay of magnetized pionsThe leptonic decay of charged pions is investigated in the presence of background magnetic fields. In this situation Lorentz symmetry is broken and new fundamental decay constants need to be…Gunnar S. Bali, Bastian B. Brandt, Gergely Endrodi et al.·May 28, 2018SaveLearn
Utility of geometry in lattice QCD simulationsWe propose a way to improve the resolution of the spatial momentum and the time interval for hadron propagators utilizing the lattice geometry. We demonstrate the validity of the method presenting…Naoya Ukita, Ken-Ichi Ishikawa, Yoshinobu Kuramashi·May 28, 2018SaveLearn
Numerical study of the N=2 Landau--Ginzburg modelIt is believed that the two-dimensional massless N=2 Wess--Zumino model becomes the N=2 superconformal field theory (SCFT) in the infrared (IR) limit. We examine this…Okuto Morikawa, Hiroshi Suzuki·May 28, 2018SaveLearn
Large N scaling and factorization in SU(N) Yang-Mills gauge theoryThe large N limit of SU(N) gauge theories is well understood in perturbation theory. Also non-perturbative lattice studies have yielded important positive evidence that 't Hooft's…Miguel García Vera, Rainer Sommer·May 28, 2018SaveLearn
Nucleon charges with dynamical overlap fermionsWe calculate the scalar and tensor charges of the nucleon in 2+1-flavor lattice QCD, for which the systematics of the renormalization of the disconnected diagram is well controlled. Numerical…Nodoka Yamanaka, Shoji Hashimoto, Takashi Kaneko et al.·May 26, 2018SaveLearn