Overlap fermions have an exact chiral symmetry on the lattice and are thus an
appropriate tool for investigating the chiral and topological structure of the
QCD vacuum. We study various chiral and topological aspects of quenched gauge
field configurations. This includes the localization and chiral properties of
the eigenmodes, the local structure of the ultraviolet filtered field strength
tensor, as well as the structure of topological charge fluctuations. We
conclude that the vacuum has a multifractal structure.Comment: 68 pages, 31 figures, file size: 1.7 MB (PDF
The 2-point functions of Euclidean conformal invariant quantum field theory are looked at as intertwining kernels of the conformal group. In this analysis a fundamental role is played by a ·two-element group W, whose non-identity element fR. = R•I consists of the conformal inversion R multiplied by a space-time reflection I. The propagators of conformal invariant quantum field theory are determined by the requirement of02-covariance. The importance of the at-inversion in the theory of Zeta-functions is mentioned.
Abstract. Three complementary views on the QCD vacuum structure, all based on eigenmodes of the overlap operator, are reported in their interrelation: (i) spectral density, localization and chiral properties of the modes, (ii) the possibility of filtering the field strength with the aim to detect selfdual and antiselfdual domains and (iii) the various faces of the topological charge density, with and without a cutoff λ cut = O(Λ QCD ). The techniques are tested on quenched SU(3) configurations.
A detailed comparison is made between the topological structure of quenched QCD as revealed by the recently proposed over-improved stout-link smearing in conjunction with an improved gluonic definition of the topological density on one hand and a similar analysis made possible by the overlap-fermionic topological charge density both with and without variable ultraviolet cutoff cut . The matching is twofold, provided by fitting the density-density two-point functions on one hand and by a point-by-point fitting of the topological densities according to the two methods. We point out the similar cluster structure of the topological density for moderate smearing and 200 MeV < cut < 600 MeV, respectively. We demonstrate the relation of the gluonic topological density for extensive smearing to the location of the overlap zero modes and the lowest overlap nonzero mode as found for the unsmeared configurations.
QCDSF CollaborationOverlap fermions, which preserve exact chiral symmetry on the lattice, provide a powerful tool for investigating the topological structure of the vacuum. Applying this formulation to zerotemperature quenched SU(3) configurations generated by means of the Lüscher-Weisz action, we define the topological charge density with and without UV filtering and study its properties by looking at the density profile and the two-point correlation function. We observe that the density possesses global sign coherent structures, which get increasingly tangled as more and more modes are included. This change of the structure is also detected by the increasing negative tail of the two-point function. We also study the inverse participation ratio of the eigenmodes and discuss their dimensionality.
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