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Visualizations of the QCD Vacuum

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Action and topological charge densities of the Euclidean-space QCD vacuum are visualized in three-dimensional slices of a 24^3 x 36 space-time lattice and an order-a^2 improved 16^3 x 32 lattice. Features include instanton anti-instanton annihilation and a comparison of standard and over-improved actions used in the smoothing of the gauge fields.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0004025,
  title  = {Visualizations of the QCD Vacuum},
  author = {Derek B. Leinweber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0004025},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures. Presented at the Workshop on Light-Cone QCD and Nonperturbative Hadron Physics. Animations of the visualizations discussed in this manuscript may be viewed at http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/theory/staff/leinweber/VisualQCD/QCDvacuum

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