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On the discretization of physical momenta in lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

The adoption of two distinct boundary conditions for two fermions species on a finite lattice allows to deal with arbitrary relative momentum between the two particle species, in spite of the momentum quantization rule due to a limited physical box size. We test the physical significance of this topological momentum by checking in the continuum limit the validity of the expected energy-momentum dispersion relations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0405002,
  title  = {On the discretization of physical momenta in lattice QCD},
  author = {G. M. de Divitiis and R. Petronzio and N. Tantalo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0405002},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 figures; references added; no changes in text or results; version accepted for pubblication in Phys. Lett. B