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We investigate the interplay between topological charge and the spectrum of the fermion matrix in lattice-QED_2 using analytic methods and Monte Carlo simulations with dynamical fermions. A new theorem on the spectral decomposition of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 C. R. Gattringer , I. Hip , C. B. Lang

In this paper, we analyze the dependence of the topological charge density from the overlap operator on the Wilson mass parameter in the overlap kernel by the symmetric multi-probing source (SMP) method. We observe that the non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-09-01 Zhen Cheng , Jian-bo Zhang

We investigate both the hyperbolic action and the determinant ratio action designed to fix the topological charge on the lattice. We show to what extent topology is fixed depending on the parameters of these actions, keeping the physical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-04-08 Falk Bruckmann , Florian Gruber , Karl Jansen , Marina Marinkovic , Carsten Urbach , Marc Wagner

We propose a generic scheme to characterize topological phases via detecting topological charges by quench dynamics. A topological charge is defined as the chirality of a monopole at Dirac or Weyl point of spin-orbit field, and topological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-10 Long Zhang , Lin Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

It is proved that the fermionic topological charge of SU(N) lattice gauge fields on the 4-torus, given in terms of a spectral flow of the Hermitian Wilson--Dirac operator, or equivalently, as the index of the Overlap Dirac operator, reduces…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 David H. Adams

We investigate how the topological charge density in lattice QCD simulations is affected by violations of chiral symmetry in different fermion actions. To this end we compare lattice configurations generated with a number of different…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-01-10 Falk Bruckmann , Nigel Cundy , Florian Gruber , Thomas Lippert , Andreas Schäfer

We investigate how the topological charge density in lattice QCD simulations is affected by violations of chiral symmetry caused by the fermion action. To this end we compare lattice configurations generated with a number of different…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-01-10 Falk Bruckmann , Nigel Cundy , Florian Gruber , Thomas Lippert , Andreas Schäfer

The topological charge is studied on lattices of large physical volume and fine lattice spacing. We illustrate how a parity transformation on the SU(3) link-variables of lattice gauge configurations reverses the sign of the topological…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-03-04 Derek B. Leinweber , Anthony G. Williams , Jian-bo Zhang , Frank X. Lee

We investigate numerically the spectral flow introduced by Adams for the staggered Dirac operator on realistic (quenched) gauge configurations. We obtain clear numerical evidence that the definition works as expected: there is a clear…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-23 V. Azcoiti , G. Di Carlo , E. Follana , A. Vaquero

Topological charges are the winding numbers of polarization vectors around the vortex centers of far-field radiation. In this work, the topological charge of photonic crystal modes is theoretically analyzed using an envelope function…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-22 Zhixin Wang , Yong Liang , Mattias Beck , Giacomo Scalari , Jérôme Faist

The topological charge density and topological susceptibility are determined by multi-probing approximation using overlap fermions in quenched SU(3) gauge theory. Then we investigate the topological structure of the quenched QCD vacuum, and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-09-01 You-Hao Zou , Jian-Bo Zhang , Guang-Yi Xiong , Ying Chen , Chuan Liu , Yu-Bin Liu , Jian-Ping Ma

The properties of the spectrum of the overlap Dirac operator and their relation to random matrix theory are studied. In particular, the predictions from chiral random matrix theory in topologically non-trivial gauge field sectors are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 Robert G. Edwards , Urs M. Heller , Joe Kiskis , Rajamani Narayanan

An explicit, detailed evaluation of the classical continuum limit of the axial anomaly/index density of the overlap Dirac operator is carried out in the infinite volume setting, and in a certain finite volume setting where the continuum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 David H. Adams

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

In an effort to clarify the significance of the recent observation of long-range topological charge coherence in QCD gauge configurations, we study the local topological charge distributions in two-dimensional $CP^{N-1}$ sigma models, using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 Saeed Ahmad , Jonathan T. Lenaghan , H. B. Thacker

The overlap formula for the chiral determinant is presented and the realization of gauge anomalies and gauge field toplogy in this context is discussed. The ability of the overlap formalism to deal with supersymmetric theories and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-09-25 Rajamani Narayanan

We analyze topological objects in pure gluonic $SU(2)$ lattice gauge theory and compute correlation functions between instantons and monopoles. Concerning the instantons we use geometric and field theoretic definitions of the topological…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Feurstein , H. Markum , St. Thurner

Recent progress in the construction of both electric, coloured and magnetic charges in gauge theories will be presented. The topological properties of the charged sectors will be highlighted as well as the applications of this work to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-19 David McMullan

Using a reweighting technique combined with a low-mode truncation of the fermionic determinant, we estimate the quark-mass dependence of the QCD topological susceptibility with overlap fermions. In contrast to previous lattice simulations…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-09-25 Tamas G. Kovacs

In general, the stability of a band crossing point indicates the presence of a quantized topological number associated with it. In particular, the recent discovery of three-dimensional Dirac semimetals in Na$_{3}$Bi and Cd$_{3}$As$_{2}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-27 Bohm-Jung Yang , Takahiro Morimoto , Akira Furusaki