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FLIC-Overlap Fermions and Topology
APE smearing the links in the irrelevant operators of clover fermions
(Fat-Link Irrelevant Clover (FLIC) fermions) provides significant improvement
in the condition number of the Hermitian-Dirac operator and gives rise to a
factor of two savings in computing the overlap operator. This report
investigates the effects of using a highly-improved definition of the lattice
field-strength tensor F_mu_nu in the fermion action, made possible through the
use of APE-smeared fat links in the construction of the irrelevant operators.
Spurious double-zero crossings in the spectral flow of the Hermitian-Wilson
Dirac operator associated with lattice artifacts at the scale of the lattice
spacing are removed with FLIC fermions composed with an O(a^4)-improved lattice
field strength tensor. Hence, FLIC-Overlap fermions provide an additional
benefit to the overlap formalism: a correct realization of topology in the
fermion sector on the lattice.Comment: Lattice2002(chiral
Hybrid and Exotic Mesons from FLIC Fermions
The spectral properties of hybrid meson interpolating fields are
investigated. The quantum numbers of the meson are carried by smeared-source
fermion operators and highly-improved chromo-electric and -magnetic field
operators composed with APE-smeared links. The effective masses of standard and
hybrid operators indicate that the ground state meson is effectively isolated
using both standard and hybrid interpolating fields. Focus is placed on
interpolating fields in which the large spinor components of the quark and
antiquark fields are merged. In particular, the effective mass of the exotic
meson is reported. Further, we port some values for excited mesonic
states using a variational process.Comment: 3 Pages, 3 figures, Lattice2003(Spectrum
Cooling for instantons and the Wrath of Nahm
The dynamics of instantons and anti-instantons in lattice QCD can be studied
by analysing the action and topological charge of configurations as they
approach a self-dual or anti-self-dual state, i.e. a state in which S/S_0=|Q|.
We use cooling to reveal the semi-classical structure of the configurations we
study. Improved actions which eliminate discretization errors up to and
including O(a^4) are used to stabilise instantons as we cool for several
thousand sweeps. An analogously improved lattice version of the continuum
field-strength tensor is used to construct a topological charge free from
O(a^4) discretization errors. Values of the action and topological charge
obtained with these improved operators approach mutually-consistent integer
values to within a few parts in 10^4 after several hundred cooling sweeps.
Analysis of configurations with |Q| \approx 1 and |Q| \approx 2 supports the
hypothesis that a self-dual |Q|=1 configuration cannot exist on the 4-torus.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at the workshop on Lattice Hadron
Physics, Cairns Australia, July 200
Hybrid Meson Spectrum from the FLIC action
The spectral properties of hybrid meson interpolating fields are
investigated. The quantum numbers of the meson are carried by smeared-source
fermion operators and highly-improved chromo-electric and -magnetic field
operators composed with APE-smeared links. The effective masses of standard and
hybrid operators indicate that the ground state meson is effectively isolated
using both standard and hybrid interpolating fields. Focus is placed on
interpolating fields in which the large spinor components of the quark and
antiquark fields are merged. In particular, the effective mass of the exotic
meson is reported. Further, we report some values for excited mesonic
states using a variational process.Comment: Talk given by A.G Williams at Workshop on Lattice Hadron Physics,
Cairns, Queensland, Australia, July 200
A spinor approach to Walker geometry
A four-dimensional Walker geometry is a four-dimensional manifold M with a
neutral metric g and a parallel distribution of totally null two-planes. This
distribution has a natural characterization as a projective spinor field
subject to a certain constraint. Spinors therefore provide a natural tool for
studying Walker geometry, which we exploit to draw together several themes in
recent explicit studies of Walker geometry and in other work of Dunajski (2002)
and Plebanski (1975) in which Walker geometry is implicit. In addition to
studying local Walker geometry, we address a global question raised by the use
of spinors.Comment: 41 pages. Typos which persisted into published version corrected,
notably at (2.15
Prospects and challenges of concentrated solar photovoltaics and enhanced geothermal energy technologies
Reducing the total emissions of energy generation systems is a pragmatic approach for limiting the environmental pollution and associated climate change problems. Socio economic activities in the 21st century is highly determined by the energy generation mediums, particularly the renewable resources, across the world. Therefore, a thorough investigation into the technologies used in harnessing these energy generation mediums should contribute to their further advancement. Concentrated Solar Photovoltaics (CSP) and Enhanced Geothermal Energy (EGE) are considered as emerging renewable energy technologies with high potential to be used as suitable replacements for fossil products (petroleum, coal, natural gas etc.). Despite the accelerated developments in these technologies, they are still facing many challenges in terms of cost. This review paper presents a detailed background about these renewable energy technologies and their main types such as solar tower, parabolic trough, and so on. Also, the principle challenges impeding the advancement of these energy technologies into commercialisation are discussed. Possible solutions for the main challenges are presented and the future prospects for such energy generation mediums are reported
Baryon resonances from a novel fat-link fermion action
We present first results for masses of positive and negative parity excited
baryons in lattice QCD using an O(a^2) improved gluon action and a Fat Link
Irrelevant Clover (FLIC) fermion action in which only the irrelevant operators
are constructed with fat links. The results are in agreement with earlier
calculations of N^* resonances using improved actions and exhibit a clear mass
splitting between the nucleon and its chiral partner, even for the Wilson
fermion action. The results also indicate a splitting between the lowest J^P =
1/2^- states for the two standard nucleon interpolating fields.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, talk given by W.Melnitchouk at LHP 2001 workshop,
Cairns, Australi
Light Quark Simulations With FLIC Fermions
Hadron masses are calculated in quenched lattice QCD in order to probe the
scaling behavior of a novel fat-link clover fermion action in which only the
irrelevant operators of the fermion action are constructed using APE-smeared
links. Light quark masses corresponding to an m_pi / m_rho ratio of 0.35 are
considered to assess the exceptional configuration problem of clover-fermion
actions. This Fat-Link Irrelevant Clover (FLIC) fermion action provides scaling
which is superior to mean-field improvement and offers advantages over
nonperturbative improvement, including reduced exceptional configurations.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, Lattice2002(QCD Spectrum and Quark Masses
Electromagnetic Form Factors with FLIC fermions
The Fat-Link Irrelevant Clover (FLIC) fermion action provides a new form of
nonperturbative O(a) improvement and allows efficient access to the light
quark-mass regime. FLIC fermions enable the construction of the
nonperturbatively O(a)-improved conserved vector current without the
difficulties associated with the fine tuning of the improvement coefficients.
The simulations are performed with an O(a^2) mean-field improved
plaquette-plus-rectangle gluon action on a 20^3 x 40 lattice with a lattice
spacing of 0.128 fm, enabling the first simulation of baryon form factors at
light quark masses on a large volume lattice.
Magnetic moments, electric charge radii and magnetic radii are extracted from
these form factors, and show interesting chiral nonanalytic behavior in the
light quark mass regime.Comment: Presented by J.Zanotti at the Workshop on Lattice Hadron Physics,
Cairns, Australia, 2003. 7pp, 8 figure
Influences of neutron star parameters on evolutions of different types of pulsar; evolutions of anomalous X-ray pulsars, soft gamma repeaters and dim isolated thermal neutron stars on the P-\.{P} diagram
Influences of the mass, moment of inertia, rotation, absence of stability in
the atmosphere and some other parameters of neutron stars on the evolution of
pulsars are examined. It is shown that the locations and evolutions of soft
gamma repeaters, anomalous X-ray pulsars and other types of pulsar on the
period versus period derivative diagram can be explained adopting values of
B G for these objects. This approach gives the possibility to explain
many properties of different types of pulsar.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figur
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