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NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
Volume 845, Issue 1, Pages 93-119Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.11.020
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Lattice QCD; Critical slowing down; Topology; Error analysis
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB/TR 09]
- European community through EU [MRTN-CT-2006-035482]
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We study the critical slowing down towards the continuum limit of lattice QCD simulations with Hybrid Monte Carlo type algorithms. In particular for the squared topological charge we find it to be very severe with an effective dynamical critical exponent of about 5 in pure gauge theory. We also consider Wilson loops which we can demonstrate to decouple from the modes which slow down the topological charge. Quenched observables are studied and a comparison to simulations of full QCD is made. In order to deal with the slow modes in the simulation, we propose a method to incorporate the information from slow observables into the error analysis of physical observables and arrive at safer error estimates. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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