doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2008.01.025
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A comparison of methods to calculate the chiral condensate with overlap fermions
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Stefan Kriega,
,
, Norbert Attiga, Thomas Lipperta and Nigel Cundyb
aJülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
bTheoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
Available online 29 January 2008.
Abstract
We present preliminary results of a test of our dynamical overlap simulations, where we calculate the unrenormalized chiral condensate from a direct calculation, the overlap eigenvalue distribution and the topological susceptibility. We observe a (as yet) unrenormalized chiral condensate of −(249(18) MeV)3, with good agreement between the various methods.
Keywords: Chiral fermions; Lattice QCD
PACS classification codes: 11.15.Ha; 12.38.Gc; 11.30.Rd
Table 1.
Lattice spacings (in fermi), number of independent configurations, pion mass, mean value of
, and the chiral condensate extracted from Eqs. (3) and (4)

Table 2.
Chiral condensate taken from the Banks–Casher relation, the trace of the quark propagator, and the topological susceptibility


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