We calculate charmed meson spectra and decay constants in lattice QCD
employing one-loop O(a) improved heavy quark action and axial-vector
currents. In quenched simulations at a∼0.1 fm with the plaquette gauge
action as well as a renormalization-group improved one, it is shown that the
deviation from the continuum dispersion relation and the violation of
space-time symmetry for the pseudoscalar meson decay constants are
substantially reduced, once the O(a) improvement is applied. Preliminary
results with two flavors of dynamical quarks are also presented.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figure, talk presented at Lattice2004(heavy), Fermilab,
June 21-26, 200