TY - JOUR
T1 - Heat-bath for the lattice Dirac propagator and a test of a Monte Carlo method for dynamical fermions
AU - Rossi, Pietro
AU - Zwanziger, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
1 Supported m the initial phase of this work by a Dean's dissertation fellowship at New York Umvensty 2 This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant no Phy-8116102 491
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - We describe a heat-bath method for inverting a non-hermitian matrix which is suitable for calculating the lattice Dirac propagator G(U) = [m + D(U)]-1 in an arbitrary gluon field U. The method is a generalization of the usual heat-bath method for generating a gaussian distribution N exp[- 1 2xAx] from which the inverse (A)β-1 of the matrix A is easily obtained, provided A is a positive symmetric matrix. The new method is applied in the Monte Carlo method for dynamical fermions previously developed by the authors, after the ratio of fermionic determinants, which is required for gluon updating, has been expressed in terms of the lattice Dirac propagator. As a test of the present approach, we performed numerical calculations in the U(1) lattice gauge theory with dynamical fermions (lattice QED) and compared them to the very accurate results which are available from the dimer method at β = g-2 = 0.
AB - We describe a heat-bath method for inverting a non-hermitian matrix which is suitable for calculating the lattice Dirac propagator G(U) = [m + D(U)]-1 in an arbitrary gluon field U. The method is a generalization of the usual heat-bath method for generating a gaussian distribution N exp[- 1 2xAx] from which the inverse (A)β-1 of the matrix A is easily obtained, provided A is a positive symmetric matrix. The new method is applied in the Monte Carlo method for dynamical fermions previously developed by the authors, after the ratio of fermionic determinants, which is required for gluon updating, has been expressed in terms of the lattice Dirac propagator. As a test of the present approach, we performed numerical calculations in the U(1) lattice gauge theory with dynamical fermions (lattice QED) and compared them to the very accurate results which are available from the dimer method at β = g-2 = 0.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(85)90584-X
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(85)90584-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:46549103675
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 261
SP - 491
EP - 506
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
IS - C
ER -