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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.

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@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