HAMILTONIAN EVOLUTION FOR THE HYBRID MONTE-CARLO ALGORITHM

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SEXTON, JC [1 ]
WEINGARTEN, DH [1 ]
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[1] UNIV DUBLIN TRINITY COLL,DEPT MATH,DUBLIN 2,IRELAND
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10.1016/0550-3213(92)90263-B
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We discuss a class of reversible, discrete approximations to Hamilton's equations for use in the hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm and derive an asymptotic formula for the step-size-dependent errors arising from this family of approximations. For lattice QCD with Wilson fermions, we construct several different updates in which the effect of fermion vacuum polarization is given a longer time step than the gauge field's self-interaction. On a 4(4) lattice, one of these algorithms with an optimal choice of step size is 30% to 40% faster than the standard leapfrog update with an optimal step size.
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