The computational cost of numerical simulations of QCD with light dynamical Wilson-quarks is estimated. The qualitative behaviour of the pion mass and coupling at small quark masses is discussed.
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0209142,
title = {On the price of light quarks},
author = {q Collaboration and F. Farchioni and C. Gebert and I. Montvay and L. Scorzato},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0209142},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures; contribution by I. Montvay to QUARKS'2002, Novgorod, Russia, June 2002; Estimates in the conclusion corrected