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Infinite Volume and Continuum Limits of the Landau-Gauge Gluon Propagator
We extend a previous improved action study of the Landau gauge gluon
propagator, by using a variety of lattices with spacings from to
0.41 fm, to more fully explore finite volume and discretization effects. We
also extend a previously used technique for minimizing lattice artifacts, the
appropriate choice of momentum variable or ``kinematic correction'', by
considering it more generally as a ``tree-level correction''. We demonstrate
that by using tree-level correction, determined by the tree-level behavior of
the action being considered, it is possible to obtain scaling behavior over a
very wide range of momenta and lattice spacings. This makes it possible to
explore the infinite volume and continuum limits of the Landau-gauge gluon
propagator.Comment: 24 pages RevTex, 18 figures; Responses to referee comments, minor
change
Scaling Behavior of the Landau Gauge Overlap Quark Propagator
The properties of the momentum space quark propagator in Landau gauge are
examined for the overlap quark action in quenched lattice QCD. Numerical
calculations are done on three lattices with different lattice spacings and
similar physical volumes to explore the approach of the quark propagator
towards the continuum limit. We have calculated the nonperturbative
momentum-dependent wavefunction renormalization function and the
nonperturbative mass function for a variety of bare quark masses and
extrapolate to the chiral limit.
We find the behavior of and are in good agreement for the
two finer lattices in the chiral limit. The quark condensate is also
calculated.Comment: 3 pages, Lattice2003(Chiral fermions
Quark propagator in a covariant gauge
Using mean--field improved gauge field configurations, we compare the results
obtained for the quark propagator from Wilson fermions and Overlap fermions on
a \3 lattice at a spacing of fm.Comment: 5 pages, 8 figures, talk given by F.D.R. Bonnet at LHP 2001 workshop,
Cairns, Australi
Bubbles in a minority game setting with real financial data
© 2005 COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering Copyright 2005 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. This paper was published in Complex Systems, edited by Axel Bender, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6039, 60390C and is made available as an electronic reprint with permission of SPIE. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.It is a well observed fact that markets follow both positive and/or negative trends, crashes and bubble effects. In general a strong positive trend is followed by a crash--a famous example of these effects was seen in the recent crash on the NASDAQ (April 2000) and prior to the crash in the Hong Kong market, which was associated with the Asian crisis in the early 1994. In this paper we use real market data coupled into a minority game with different payoff functions to study the dynamics and the location of financial bubbles.Frédéric D.R. Bonnet, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbot
Advancement in the understanding of multifragmentation and phase transition for hot nuclei
Recent advancement on the knowledge of multifragmentation and phase
transition for hot nuclei is reported. It concerns i) the influence of radial
collective energy on fragment partitions and the derivation of general
properties of partitions in presence of such a collective energy, ii) a better
knowledge of freeze-out properties obtained by means of a simulation based on
all the available experimental information and iii) the quantitative study of
the bimodal behaviour of the heaviest fragment charge distribution for
fragmenting hot heavy quasi-projectiles which allows, for the first time, to
estimate the latent heat of the phase transition.Comment: 9 pages, Proceedings of IWM09, November 4-7, Catania (Italy
The FLIC Overlap Quark Propagator
FLIC overlap fermions are a variant of the standard (Wilson) overlap action,
with the FLIC (Fat Link Irrelevant Clover) action as the overlap kernel rather
than the Wilson action. The structure of the FLIC overlap fermion propagator in
momentum space is studied, and a comparison against previous studies of the
Wilson overlap propagator in quenched QCD is performed. To explore the scaling
properties of the propagator for the two actions, numerical calculations are
performed in Landau Gauge across three lattices with different lattice spacing
and similar physical volumes. We find that at light quark masses the acti
ons agree in both the infrared and the ultraviolet, but at heavier masses some
disagreement in the ultraviolet appears. This is attributed to the two action s
having different discretisation errors with the FLIC overlap providing superior
performance in this regime. Both actions scale reasonably, but some scaling
violations are observed
Node Sampling using Random Centrifugal Walks
Sampling a network with a given probability distribution has been identified
as a useful operation. In this paper we propose distributed algorithms for
sampling networks, so that nodes are selected by a special node, called the
\emph{source}, with a given probability distribution. All these algorithms are
based on a new class of random walks, that we call Random Centrifugal Walks
(RCW). A RCW is a random walk that starts at the source and always moves away
from it.
Firstly, an algorithm to sample any connected network using RCW is proposed.
The algorithm assumes that each node has a weight, so that the sampling process
must select a node with a probability proportional to its weight. This
algorithm requires a preprocessing phase before the sampling of nodes. In
particular, a minimum diameter spanning tree (MDST) is created in the network,
and then nodes' weights are efficiently aggregated using the tree. The good
news are that the preprocessing is done only once, regardless of the number of
sources and the number of samples taken from the network. After that, every
sample is done with a RCW whose length is bounded by the network diameter.
Secondly, RCW algorithms that do not require preprocessing are proposed for
grids and networks with regular concentric connectivity, for the case when the
probability of selecting a node is a function of its distance to the source.
The key features of the RCW algorithms (unlike previous Markovian approaches)
are that (1) they do not need to warm-up (stabilize), (2) the sampling always
finishes in a number of hops bounded by the network diameter, and (3) it
selects a node with the exact probability distribution
Nonperturbative improvement and tree-level correction of the quark propagator
We extend an earlier study of the Landau gauge quark propagator in quenched
QCD where we used two forms of the O(a)-improved propagator with the
Sheikholeslami-Wohlert quark action. In the present study we use the
nonperturbative value for the clover coefficient c_sw and mean-field
improvement coefficients in our improved quark propagators. We compare this to
our earlier results which used the mean-field c_sw and tree-level improvement
coefficients for the propagator. We also compare three different
implementations of tree-level correction: additive, multiplicative, and hybrid.
We show that the hybrid approach is the most robust and reliable and can
successfully deal even with strong ultraviolet behavior and zero-crossing of
the lattice tree-level expression. We find good agreement between our improved
quark propagators when using the appropriate nonperturbative improvement
coefficients and hybrid tree-level correction. We also present a simple
extrapolation of the quark mass function to the chiral limit.Comment: 12 pages, 18 figures, RevTeX4. Some clarifications and corrections.
Final version, to appear in Phys.Rev.
Death rates from malaria epidemics, Burundi and Ethiopia.
Death rates exceeded emergency thresholds at 4 sites during epidemics of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Burundi (2000-2001) and in Ethiopia (2003-2004). Deaths likely from malaria ranged from 1,000 to 8,900, depending on site, and accounted for 52% to 78% of total deaths. Earlier detection of malaria and better case management are needed
Hadron Properties with FLIC Fermions
The Fat-Link Irrelevant Clover (FLIC) fermion action provides a new form of
nonperturbative O(a)-improvement in lattice fermion actions offering near
continuum results at finite lattice spacing. It provides computationally
inexpensive access to the light quark mass regime of QCD where chiral
nonanalytic behaviour associated with Goldstone bosons is revealed. The
motivation and formulation of FLIC fermions, its excellent scaling properties
and its low-lying hadron mass phenomenology are presented.Comment: 29 pages, 13 figures, 6 tables. Contribution to lecure notes in 2nd
Cairns Topical Workshop on Lattice Hadron Physics 2003 (LHP 2003), Cairns,
Australia, 22-30 Jul 200
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