We generalize local lexicographic SSOR preconditioning for the Sheikholeslami-Wohlert improved Wilson fermion action and the truncated perfect free fermion action. In our test implementation we achieve performance gains as known from SSOR preconditioning of the standard Wilson fermion action.
The studies of the quantum corrections for the anisotropy parameter,$eta(=xi_R/xi_B)$, for the improved actions, $beta (C_0 L({Plaq.}) + C_1 L({Rect.}))$, are proceeded in the medium to strong coupling region on anisotropic lattices. The global features for the $eta$ parameters as a function of $beta$ and the coefficient $C_{1}$ have been clarified. It has been found by the perturbative analysis that as $C_1$ decreases, the slope of the $eta(beta)$ becomes less steep and for the actions whose $C_{1}$ is less than -0.160, $eta$ decreases as $beta$ decreases, contrary to the case of the standard action. In the medium to strong coupling region, the $eta$ parameter begins to increase as $beta$ decreases for all $C_{1}$. This means that for the actions with $C_{1} < -0.160$, the one-loop perturbative results for $eta$ break down qualitatively and the $eta$ parameters have a dip. As a result of this dip structure the $eta$ for Iwasakis action remains close to unity in the wide range of $beta$.
We report on a study of the light quark spectrum using an improved gauge action and both Kogut-Susskind and Naik quark actions. We have studied six different lattice spacings, corresponding to plaquette couplings ranging from 6.8 to 7.9, with five to six quark masses per coupling. We compare the two quark actions in terms of the spectrum and restoration of flavor symmetry. We also compare these results with those from the conventional action.
We use improved lattice actions for glue, light quarks and heavy quarks for which we use lattice NRQCD to compute hadron masses. Our results are in good agreement with experiment, except for charmed hadrons. It seems that charmed quar ks are not well approximated as heavy quarks nor as light quarks.
We present the results of our perturbative calculations of the static quark potential, small Wilson loops, the static quark self energy, and the mean link in Landau gauge. These calculations are done for the one loop Symanzik improved gluon action, and the improved staggered quark action.
We investigate effects of action improvement on the light hadron spectrum and the static quark potential in two-flavor QCD for $a^{-1} approx 1$ GeV and $m_{PS}/m_V = 0.7-0.9$. We compare a renormalization group improved action with the plaquette action for gluons, and the SW-clover action with the Wilson action for quarks. We find a significant improvement in the hadron spectrum by improving the quark action, while the gluon improvement is crucial for a rotationally invariant static potential. We also explore the region of light quark masses corresponding to $m_{PS}/m_V geq 0.4$ on a 2.7 fm lattice using the improved gauge and quark action. A flattening of the potential is not observed up to 2 fm.