Taming lattice artifacts with Pauli-Villars fields

Anna Hasenfratz, Yigal Shamir, Benjamin Svetitsky

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Abstract

As fermions are added to a lattice gauge theory, one is driven to stronger bare coupling in order to maintain the same renormalized coupling. Stronger bare couplings are usually associated with larger gauge fluctuations, leading to larger cutoff effects and more expensive simulations. In theories with many light fermions, sometimes the desired physical region cannot be reached before encountering a phase boundary. We show that these undesired effects can be reduced by adding Pauli-Villars fields. We reach significantly larger renormalized couplings while at the same time damping short-distance fluctuations of the gauge field. This may allow for controlled continuum extrapolations from large lattice spacings.

Original languageEnglish
Article number074509
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume104
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2021

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation University of Colorado Boulder Colorado State University University of Colorado Boulder HEP Beowulf cluster U.S. Department of Energy Israel Science Foundation
National Science FoundationACI-1532235, ACI-1532236
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-SC0010005
Office of Science
Colorado State University
University of Colorado Boulder
Israel Science Foundation491/17

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