The Minimal Landau Background Gauge on the Lattice
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2013-05-30 v1
Abstract
We present the first numerical implementation of the minimal Landau background gauge for Yang-Mills theory on the lattice. Our approach is a simple generalization of the usual minimal Landau gauge and is formulated for general SU(N) gauge group. We also report on preliminary tests of the method in the four-dimensional SU(2) case, using different background fields. Our tests show that the convergence of the numerical minimization process is comparable to the case of a null background. The uniqueness of the minimizing functional employed is briefly discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1204.0216,
title = {The Minimal Landau Background Gauge on the Lattice},
author = {Attilio Cucchieri and Tereza Mendes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0216},
year = {2013}
}
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