Simulating an arbitrary number of flavors of dynamical overlap fermions
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
We present a set of related Hybrid Monte Carlo methods to simulate an arbitrary number of dynamical overlap fermions. Each fermion is represented by a chiral pseudo-fermion field. The new algorithm reduces critical slowing down in the chiral limit and for sectors of nontrivial topology.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0604015,
title = {Simulating an arbitrary number of flavors of dynamical overlap fermions},
author = {Thomas DeGrand and Stefan Schaefer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0604015},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, 7 figures. Version to be published in JHEP: added some clarifying text, corrected description of reweighting