Non-perturbative methods and lattice QCD [WS ed.] 9810245955, 9789810245955, 9789812811370

Table of contents :
CONTENTS......Page 8
Preface......Page 6
1 Chiral Fermions and Perfect Action......Page 12
Approximate Ginsparg-Wilson Fermions for QCD......Page 14
Low Energy Structure of Domain Wall Fermions......Page 30
An Almost Perfect Lattice Action for Infrared QCD......Page 39
2 Hadron and Glueball Masses......Page 48
Full QCD Light Hadron Spectrum and Quark Masses......Page 50
Excited Heavy Baryon Masses From the l/Nc Expansion of HQET......Page 59
Lattice Study of Scalar and Tensor Glueballs......Page 68
Preliminary Results for Light Hadron Masses from Lattice QCD on Asymmetric Lattices......Page 76
3 Numerical Algorithms......Page 84
A Study of Lattice SU(2) Gauge Configurations by Cooling......Page 86
Green's Function Monte Carlo Approach to SU(3) Yang-Mills Theory in (3+l)D......Page 94
Tutorial on Quasi-sparse Eigenvector Diagonalization......Page 103
Monte Carlo Hamiltonian: Generalization to Quantum Field Theory......Page 111
Odd-flavor Simulations by Hybrid Monte Carlo......Page 123
4 QCD at Finite Density and Temperature......Page 132
Diquark Condensation in Two Colour QCD......Page 134
Simulation of SU(2) Dynamical Fermions at Finite Chemical Potential and at Finite Temperature......Page 143
QCD at Finite Density......Page 149
High Temperature QCD and Dimensional Reduction......Page 161
5 QCD Vacuum and Topological Issues......Page 170
QCD with a 0-Vacuum Term: a Complex System with a Simple Complex Action......Page 172
Gluons in the Lattice SU(2) Classical Gauge Field......Page 187
Do Instantons of the CP(N-l) Model Melt?......Page 196
A Study of Center Vortices in SU(2) and SU(3) Gauge Theories......Page 205
Further Properties of Instantons and Monopoles in the QCD Vacuum......Page 215
6 Quantum and Parallel Computing......Page 226
Why Quantum Computation?......Page 228
High Performance Parallel Computer from Commodity PC Components......Page 234
7 Statistical Mechanics......Page 242
First Order Phase Transition of the Q-State Potts Model in Two Dimensions......Page 244
Multi-Overlap Monte Carlo Studies of Spin Glasses......Page 253
Short-time Critical Dynamics......Page 263
Nonperturbative Approach to Frustrated Magnets......Page 272
Universal Short-time Critical Behavior on the Two-Dimensional Triangular Lattices......Page 281
8 Supersymmetry and Beyond the Standard Model......Page 294
Supersymmetry on the Lattice......Page 296
Anomaly Charge Quantization and Family......Page 305
List of Participants and Contact Information......Page 312