HISQ action in dynamical simulations
Abstract
We report on recent progress in employing the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action introduced by the HPQCD/UKQCD collaboration in simulations with dynamical fermions. The HISQ action is an order Symanzik-improved action with further suppressed taste symmetry violations. The improvement in taste symmetry is achieved by introducing Fat7 smearing of the original gauge links and reunitarization (projection to an element of U(3) or SU(3)) followed by Asq-type smearing. Major challenges for calculating the fermion force are related to the reunitarization step. We present a preliminary study of the HISQ action on two 2+1+1 flavor ensembles with the lattice spacing roughly equivalent to the MILC asqtad a=0.125 and 0.09 fm ensembles.
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@article{arxiv.0903.0874,
title = {HISQ action in dynamical simulations},
author = {A. Bazavov and C. Bernard and C. DeTar and W. Freeman and Steven Gottlieb and U. M. Heller and J. E. Hetrick and J. Laiho and L. Levkova and J. Osborn and R. Sugar and D. Toussaint},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.0874},
year = {2010}
}
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7 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at the XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14-19, 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA