LATTICE QCD ON SMALL COMPUTERS

被引:183
作者
ALFORD, M [1 ]
DIMM, W [1 ]
LEPAGE, GP [1 ]
HOCKNEY, G [1 ]
MACKENZIE, PB [1 ]
机构
[1] FERMILAB NATL ACCELERATOR LAB, DEPT THEORET PHYS, BATAVIA, IL 60510 USA
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10.1016/0370-2693(95)01131-9
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We demonstrate that lattice QCD calculations can be made 10(3)-10(6) times faster by using very coarse lattices. To obtain accurate results, we replace the standard lattice actions by perturbatively-improved actions with tadpole-improved correction terms that remove the leading errors due to the lattice. To illustrate the power of this approach, we calculate the static-quark potential, and the charmonium spectrum and wavefunctions using a desktop computer. We obtain accurate results that are independent of the lattice spacing and agree well with experiment.
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