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This note is based on our recent results on QCD with varying number of flavors of fundamental fermions. Topics include unusual, strong dynamics in the preconformal, confining phase, the physics of the conformal window and the role of…
I comment on progress of lattice QCD techniques and calculations. Recent results on pentaquark masses as well as of the spectrum of excited baryons are summarizned and interpreted. The present state of calculations of quantities related to…
We review recent developments in lattice siumulations of the equation of state, order of the thermal phase transition and the determination of the pseudo-critical temperature in (2+1)-flavor QCD. Owing to the increasing computer power, new…
In this article, we review some of the recent developments towards the future goal of quantum computing or quantum simulating lattice QCD. This includes a novel theoretical framework developed for non-Abelian gauge theories that is the…
There has been major progress in recent years in the development of improved discretizations of the QCD action, current operators, etc for use in numerical simulations that employ very coarse lattices. These lectures review the field…
We report on the progress of the software effort in the QCD Application Area of SciDAC. In particular, we discuss how the software developed under SciDAC enabled the aggressive exploitation of leadership computers, and we report on progress…
We discuss the application of hybrid over-relaxation, even-odd preconditioning and a modified local updating procedure to the local bosonic fermion algorithm. Studies on autocorrelation times and the tuning of the parameters of the…
Lattice spin models are useful for studying critical phenomena and allow the extraction of equilibrium and dynamical properties. Simulations of such systems are usually based on Monte Carlo (MC) techniques, and the main difficulty is often…
We explore the possibility of computing fermionic correlators on the lattice by combining a domain decomposition with a multi-level integration scheme. The quark propagator is expanded in series of terms with a well defined hierarchical…
We propose a strategy for conducting lattice QCD simulations at fixed volume but variable quark mass so as to investigate the physical effects of dynamical fermions. We present details of techniques which enable this to be carried out…
We present an exact local bosonic algorithm for the simulation of dynamical fermions in lattice QCD. It is based on a non-hermitian polynomial approximation of the inverse of the quark matrix and a global Metropolis accept/reject correction…
Progress in computing the spectrum of excited baryons and mesons in lattice QCD is described. Large sets of spatially-extended hadron operators are used. The need for multi-hadron operators in addition to single-hadron operators is…
We review the techniques of lattice QCD calculations for excited hadrons with light quarks and outline the future challenges that are faced in calculations with fully dynamical fermions.
A remarkable progress has been made in the understanding of the hot and dense QCD matter using lattice gauge theory. The issues which are very well understood as well those which require both conceptual as well as algorithmic advances are…
We consider Monte Carlo simulations of classical spin models of statistical mechanics using the massively parallel architecture provided by graphics processing units (GPUs). We discuss simulations of models with discrete and continuous…
We show that in practical simulations of lattice QCD with two dynamical light fermion species the PHMC algorithm samples configuration space differently from the commonly used HMC algorithm.
Quadratic programming (QP) underpins real-time robotics by enabling efficient, constrained optimization in state estimation, motion planning, and control. In legged locomotion and manipulation, essential modules like inverse dynamics, Model…
A quick review of the features of FermiQCD, a C++ library for fast development of parallel Lattice QCD applications. FermiQCD is fully Object Oriented and is based on MPI but, it required no previsius knowledge of parallel programming. It…
In recent years there has been much progress on the investigation of the QCD phase diagram with lattice QCD. This talk will focus on the developments in the last few years. Especially the addition of external influences and extended ranges…
We present the first tests and results from a study of QCD with two flavours of dynamical Wilson fermions using the Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm (HMCA) on APE100 machines.