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Monte Carlo overrelaxation for SU(N) gauge theories

2005/03/31 by Ph. de Forcrand, de Forcrand, Ph., Oliver Jahn +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/0503041

7 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the "Third International Workshop on Numerical Analysis and Lattice QCD", Edinburgh, June 2003

arxiv created 2005/03/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The standard approach to Monte Carlo simulations of SU(N) Yang-Mills theories updates successive SU(2) subgroups of each SU(N) link. We follow up on an old proposal of Creutz, to perform overrelaxation in the full SU(N) group instead, and show that it is more efficient.

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