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A variant approach to the overlap action

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

I describe an implementation of the overlap action, which is built from an action which is itself an approximate overlap action. It appears to be about a factor of 15-20 less expensive to use, than the usual overlap action with the Wilson fermion action as its kernel. Ingredients include a fat link to suppress coupling to dislocations and a free field action with a spectrum which resembles an overlap; much of the gain comes from the use of eigenmodes of the approximate action to begin the overlap calculation. As a physics example, I compute the quark condensate in finite volume in the quenched approximation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0007046,
  title  = {A variant approach to the overlap action},
  author = {Thomas DeGrand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0007046},
  year   = {2008}
}

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15 pages, Revtex, postscript figures. COLO-HEP-446

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