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We study topology in Quantum Chromodynamics at high temperatures by means of lattice calculations. Simulations are performed with $N_f=2+1+1$ Wilson twisted mass fermions at maximal twist with physical quark masses, and temperatures…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-08 A. Yu. Kotov , M. P. Lombardo , A. Trunin

We present a study of the topological susceptibility in lattice QCD with two degenerate flavors of dynamical quarks. The topological charge is measured on gauge configurations generated with a renormalization group improved gauge action and…

We investigate the topological properties of $N_f = 2+1$ QCD with physical quark masses, both at zero and finite temperature. We adopt stout improved staggered fermions and explore a range of lattice spacings $a \sim 0.05 - 0.12$ fm. At…

We study SU$(N_C)$ gauge theories with a single fermion in the two-index antisymmetric representation to predict the mesonic spectrum of supersymmetric $\mathcal{N}=1$ SYM theories. Using gradient flow methods, we investigate fractional…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-01-28 Michele Della Morte , Benjamin Jäger , Sofie Martins , J. Tobias Tsang

Using Monte Carlo simulations with overrelaxation, we have equilibrated lattices up to $\beta=2.928$, size $60^4$, for pure SU(2) lattice gauge theory with the Wilson action. We calculate topological charges with the standard cooling method…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-03-06 Bernd A. Berg , David A. Clarke

We address a long standing problem regarding topology in lattice simulations of QCD with unimproved Wilson fermions. Earlier attempt with unimproved Wilson fermions at \beta =5.6 to verify the suppression of topological susceptibility with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-30 Abhishek Chowdhury , Asit K. De , Sangita De Sarkar , A. Harindranath , Santanu Mondal , Anwesa Sarkar , Jyotirmoy Maiti

We explore aspects of the phase structure of SU(2) and SU(3) lattice gauge theories at strong coupling with many flavours $N_f$ of Wilson fermions in the fundamental representation. The pseudoscalar meson mass as a function of hopping…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-04-30 Kei-ichi Nagai , Georgina Carrillo-Ruiz , Gergana Koleva , Randy Lewis

We investigate topology in lattice simulations of QCD with two flavours of dynamical Wilson fermions. At various sea quark masses we find reasonable agreement between results for the topological charge from fermionic and gluonic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Gunnar S. Bali , Norbert Eicker , Thomas Lippert , Hartmut Neff , Boris Orth , Klaus Schilling , Thorsten Struckmann , Jochen Viehoff

We investigate the long-range statistical correlations, whereby discuss the nature of the undermining interacting/ noninteracting domains and associated phase transitions under variations of the quark mass and the mass scale that…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-08-19 Bhupendra Nath Tiwari

Chiral perturbation theory predicts that in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), light dynamical quarks suppress the gauge-field topological susceptibility of the vacuum. The degree of suppression depends on quark multiplicity and masses. It…

The deconfinement transition in SU(4) lattice gauge theory is studied on N_s^3 X N_t lattices with N_s = 8-16 and N_t = 4-8 using a modified Wilson action which is expected to have no bulk transitions. The peak of susceptibility \chi_{|L|}…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Rajiv V. Gavai

We investigate properties of the topological charge for several SU(NC) gauge field ensembles for NC = 4, 5, 6 with a single fermion in the two-index anti-symmetric representation, covering multiple lattice spacings at otherwise…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-06-27 Pietro Butti , Michele Della Morte , Benjamin Jäger , Sofie Martins , J. Tobias Tsang

We present new results from our ongoing study of the SU(3) sextet model with two flavors in the two-index symmetric representation of the gauge group. In the simulations use unimproved Wilson fermions to investigate the infrared properties…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-09-13 Martin Hansen , Claudio Pica

We present a SU(2) gauge theory of fluctuating magnetic order in the two-dimensional Hubbard model. The theory is based on a fractionalization of electrons in fermionic chargons and bosonic spinons. The chargons undergo N\'eel or spiral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-08 Pietro M. Bonetti , Walter Metzner

The 2d O(3) model is widely used as a toy model for ferromagnetism and for Quantum Chromodynamics. With the latter it shares --- among other basic aspects --- the property that the continuum functional integral splits into topological…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-12 Wolfgang Bietenholz , Philippe de Forcrand , Urs Gerber , Héctor Mejía-Díaz , Ilya O. Sandoval

We study the low-lying eigenmodes of the lattice overlap Dirac operator for SU(N) gauge theories with N=2,3,4 and 5 colours. We define a fermionic topological charge from the zero-modes of this operator and show that, as N grows, any…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Nigel Cundy , Michael Teper , Urs Wenger

We present results on QCD with four dynamical flavors in the temperature range $0.9 \lesssim T/T_c \lesssim 2$. We have performed lattice simulations with Wilson fermions at maximal twist and measured the topological charge with gluonic and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-03-14 Florian Burger , Ernst-Michael Ilgenfritz , Maria Paola Lombardo , Michael Müller-Preussker , Anton Trunin

The topological susceptibility is one of the quantities that has a large discretization error, and the error can be sensitive to the choice of fermion action. We report on our results from physical point simulations with 2+1 flavor M\"obius…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-25 Issaku Kanamori , Yasumichi Aoki , Hidenori Fukaya , Jishnu Goswami , Shoji Hashimotod , Yu Zhang

In this work we study the topological properties of the $G_2$ lattice gauge theory by means of Monte Carlo simulations. We focus on the behaviour of topological quantities across the deconfinement transition and investigate observables…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-07-24 Claudio Bonati

Topological charge susceptibility $\chi_{t}$ for pure gauge SU(3) theory at finite temperature is studied using anisotropic lattices. The over-improved stout-link smoothing method is utilized to calculate the topological charge. Near the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-11 Guang-Yi Xiong , Jian-Bo Zhang , Ying Chen , Chuan Liu , Yu-Bin Liu , Jian-Ping Ma