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The classically perfect Fixed-Point fermion action for lattice QCD, a highly improved discretization of the continuum theory that preserves chiral symmetry, is constructed in this thesis and a parallel work by T. Jorg. In the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Hauswirth

The K\"ahler-Dirac fermion, recognized as an elegant geometric approach, offers an alternative to traditional representations of relativistic fermions. Recent studies have demonstrated that symmetric mass generation (SMG) can precisely…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-21 Yuxuan Guo , Yi-Zhuang You

We study dynamical mass generation in QED in (2+1) dimensions using Hamiltonian lattice methods. We use staggered fermions, and perform simulations with explicit dynamical fermions in the chiral limit. We demonstrate that a recently…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Pieter Maris , Dean Lee

Staggered fermion shift symmetries correspond to translations of the fermion field within the unit cell of a hypercubic lattice. They satisfy an algebra and in four Euclidean dimensions can be related to a discrete subgroup of an $SU(4)$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-08 Simon Catterall , Arnab Pradhan

We investigate a three-dimensional lattice model of two flavors of massless staggered fermions coupled through two independent four-fermion interactions, $U_I$ and $U_B$. Using large-scale fermion-bag Monte Carlo simulations, we map out the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-27 Sandip Maiti , Debasish Banerjee , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Marina K. Marinkovic

Taking inspiration from lattice QCD results, we argue that a non-perturbative mass term for fermions can be generated as a consequence of the dynamical phenomenon of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, in turn triggered by the explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-12-06 Roberto Frezzotti , GianCarlo Rossi

Lattice simulations have observed a novel strong coupling symmetric mass generation (SMG) phase for the SU(3) gauge system with $N_f=8$ fundamental fermions (represented by two sets of staggered fields) at very large renormalized coupling…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-16 Anna Hasenfratz , Oliver Witzel

The maximally twisted lattice QCD action of an $SU_f(2)$ doublet of mass degenerate Wilson quarks gives rise to a real positive fermion determinant and it is invariant under the product of standard parity times the change of sign of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Frezzotti , G. C. Rossi

The symmetric mass generation (SMG) phase is an insulator in which a single-particle gap is intrinsically opened by the interaction, without involving symmetry spontaneously breaking or topological order. Here, we perform unbiased quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-17 Wei-Xuan Chang , Sibo Guo , Yi-Zhuang You , Zi-Xiang Li

Symmetric mass generation (SMG) transitions defy the conventional Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm by opening a many-body gap without spontaneous symmetry breaking or topological order, attracting intense interest across particle physics and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-25 Zhi-Xuan Li , Yin-Kai Yu , Zi-Xiang Li , Shuai Yin

We study a lattice model of interacting Dirac fermions in $(2+1)$ dimension space-time with an SU(4) symmetry. While increasing interaction strength, this model undergoes a {\it continuous} quantum phase transition from the weakly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-28 Yuan-Yao He , Han-Qing Wu , Yi-Zhuang You , Cenke Xu , Zi Yang Meng , Zhong-Yi Lu

The Landau paradigm has been a powerful framework for understanding phase transitions involving spontaneous symmetry breaking. In contrast, phase transitions between two symmetric phases, where neither phase breaks any symmetry, remain less…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-01 Simon Martin , Tarun Grover

We give a full account of the Numerical Stochastic Perturbation Theory method for Lattice Gauge Theories. Particular relevance is given to the inclusion of dynamical fermions, which turns out to be surprisingly cheap in this context. We…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Di Renzo , L. Scorzato

Charge conjugation (C), mirror reflection (R), and time reversal (T) symmetries, along with internal symmetries, are essential for massless Majorana and Dirac fermions. These symmetries are sufficient to rule out potential fermion bilinear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-11 Yang-Yang Li , Juven Wang , Yi-Zhuang You

Many results from lattice QCD of broad importance to particle and nuclear physics are obtained with 2+1 flavors of staggered sea quarks. In the continuum limit, staggered fermions yield four species, called tastes. To reduce the number of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-06-10 Andreas S. Kronfeld

The Fermi surface symmetric mass generation (SMG) is an intrinsically interaction-driven mechanism that opens an excitation gap on the Fermi surface without invoking symmetry-breaking or topological order. We explore this phenomenon within…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-25 Da-Chuan Lu , Meng Zeng , Yi-Zhuang You

The global center symmetry of quenched QCD at zero baryonic chemical potential is broken spontaneously at a critical temperature $T_c$ leading to a first-order phase transition. Including heavy dynamical quarks breaks the center symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-08 Reinhold Kaiser , Owe Philipsen

Staggered formalism of lattice fermion can be cast into a form of direct product K-cycle in noncommutative geometry. The correspondence between this staggered K-cycle and a canonically defined K-cycle for finitely generated abelian group…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Dai , Xing-Chang Song

Using lattice simulations we demonstrate from first principles the existence of a non-perturbative mechanism for elementary particle mass generation in models with gauge fields, fermions and scalars, if an exact invariance forbids power…

Due to the fermion sign problem, standard lattice Monte-Carlo method for QCD fail at small temperatures and high baryon densities. $G_2$-QCD, QCD with the gauge group $SU(3)$ replaced by the exceptional Lie group $G_2$, can be simulated…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-05 Lorenz von Smekal , Bjoern H. Wellegehausen , Axel Maas , Andreas Wipf