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Title: Spectrum of the Wilson Dirac operator at finite lattice spacings

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences and BURSt Research Centre, Brunel University West London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH (United Kingdom)

We consider the effect of discretization errors on the microscopic spectrum of the Wilson Dirac operator using both chiral perturbation theory and chiral random matrix theory. A graded chiral Lagrangian is used to evaluate the microscopic spectral density of the Hermitian Wilson Dirac operator as well as the distribution of the chirality over the real eigenvalues of the Wilson Dirac operator. It is shown that a chiral random matrix theory for the Wilson Dirac operator reproduces the leading zero-momentum terms of Wilson chiral perturbation theory. All results are obtained for a fixed index of the Wilson Dirac operator. The low-energy constants of Wilson chiral perturbation theory are shown to be constrained by the Hermiticity properties of the Wilson Dirac operator.

OSTI ID:
21541534
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 83, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.085014; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English