Landau gauge fixing on GPUs

Coulomb and Landau Gauge Fixing in GPUs using CUDA and MILC

Investigation of Laplacian gauge fixing for U(1) and SU(2) gauge fields.

The Laplacian gauge on the lattice is investigated numerically using U(1) and SU(2) gauge fields. The problem of Gribov ambiguities is addressed and to asses the smoothness of the gauge fixed configurations, they are compared to configurations fixed to the Landau gauge. The results of these comparisons with the Landau gauge indicate that Laplacian gauge fixing works very well in practice and of...

A global optimization method for Landau gauge fixing in Lattice QCD

An algorithm for gauge fixing to the Landau gauge in the fundamental modular region in lattice QCD is described. The method, a combination of an evolutionary algorithm with a steepest descent method, is able to solve the problem of the nonperturbative gauge fixing. The performance of the combined algorithm is investigated on 8, β = 5.7, and 16, β = 6.0, lattice SU(3) gauge configurations. Latti...

Improved Landau Gauge Fixing and Discretisation Errors ∗

Gauge fixing in lattice gauge theory simulations is crucial for many calculations e.g. the study of gauge dependent quantities such as the gluon propagator [1]. However, the standard lattice Landau gauge condition [2] is the same as the continuum condition, ∑ μ ∂μAμ = 0, only to leading order in the lattice spacing, a. The focus of this talk is to use mean-fieldimproved perturbation theory [3] ...

An algorithm for Landau gauge fixing in Lattice QCD

An algorithm for gauge fixing to the minimal Landau gauge in lattice QCD is described. The method, a combination of an evolutionary algorithm with a steepest descent method, is able to solve the problem of the nonperturbative gauge fixing. The performance of the combined algorithm is investigated on 8, β = 5.7, and 16, β = 6.0, lattice SU(3) gauge configurations.