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Wolfgang Bietenholz
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2018
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The 2d O(3) model is widely used as a toy model for ferromagnetism and for Quantum Chromodynamics. With the latter it shares --- among other basic aspects --- the property that the continuum functional integral splits into topological sectors. Topology can also be defined in its lattice regularised version, but semi-classical arguments suggest that the topological susceptibility $chi_{rm t}$ does not scale towards a finite continuum limit. Previous numerical studies confirmed that the quantity $chi_{rm t}, xi^{2}$ diverges at large correlation length $xi$. Here we investigate the question whether or not this divergence persists when the configurations are smoothened by the Gradient Flow (GF). The GF destroys part of the topological windings; on fine lattices this strongly reduces $chi_{rm t}$. However, even when the flow time is so long that the GF impact range --- or smoothing radius --- attains $xi/2$, we do still not observe evidence of continuum scaling.
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The 2d Heisenberg model --- or 2d O(3) model --- is popular in condensed matter physics, and in particle physics as a toy model for QCD. Along with other analogies, it shares with 4d Yang-Mills theories, and with QCD, the property that the configurations are divided in topological sectors. In the lattice regularisation the topological charge $Q$ can still be defined such that $Q in mathbb{Z}$. It has generally been observed, however, that the topological susceptibility $chi_{rm t} = langle Q^2 rangle / V$ does not scale properly in the continuum limit, i.e. that the quantity $chi_{rm t} xi^2$ diverges for $xi to infty$ (where $xi$ is the correlation length in lattice units). Here we address the question whether or not this divergence persists after the application of the Gradient Flow.
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We study temperature dependence of the topological susceptibility with the $N_{f}=2+1$ flavors Wilson fermion. We have two major interests in this paper. One is a comparison of gluonic and fermionic definitions of the topological susceptibility. Two definitions are related by the chiral Ward-Takahashi identity but their coincidence is highly non-trivial for the Wilson fermion. By applying the gradient flow both for the gauge and quark fields we find a good agreement of these two measurements. The other is a verification of a prediction of the dilute instanton gas approximation at low temperature region $T_{pc}< T<1.5T_{pc}$, for which we confirm the prediction that the topological susceptibility decays with power $chi_{t}propto(T/T_{pc})^{-8}$ for three flavors QCD.
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