Suppressing dislocations in normalized hypercubic smearing

Thomas Degrand, Yigal Shamir, Benjamin Svetitsky

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Abstract

Normalized hypercubic smearing improves the behavior of dynamical Wilson-clover fermions, but has the unwanted side effect that it can occasionally produce spikes in the fermion force. These spikes originate in the chain rule connecting the derivative with respect to the smeared links to the derivative with respect to the dynamical links, and are associated with the presence of dislocations in the dynamical gauge field. We propose and study an action designed to suppress these dislocations. We present evidence for improved performance of the hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm. A side benefit is improvement in the properties of valence chiral fermions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number054501
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume90
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Sep 2014

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