We calculate the PCAC mass for $(2+1)$ flavor full QCD with Wilson-type quarks. We adopt the Small Flow-time eXpansion (SFtX) method based on the gradient flow which provides us a general way to compute correctly renormalized observables even if the
relevant symmetries for the observable are broken explicitly due to the lattice regularization, such as the Poinc{a}re and chiral symmetries. Our calculation is performed on heavy $u, d$ quarks mass ($m_{pi}/m_{rho}simeq0.63$) and approximately physical $s$ quark mass with fine lattice $a simeq 0.07$~fm. The results are compared with those computed with the Schrodinger functional method.
We study thermodynamic properties of 2+1 flavor QCD applying the Small Flow-time eXpansion (SFtX) method based on the gradient flow. The method provides us with a general way to compute correctly renormalized observables irrespective of explicit viol
ation of symmetries due to the regularization, such as the Poincare and chiral symmetries on the lattice. We report on the status of our on-going project to compute the energy-momentum tensor and the chiral condensate at the physical point with improved Wilson quarks, extending our previous study with slightly heavy u and d quarks. We also report on our test of two-loop matching coefficients recently calculated by Harlander et al., revisiting the case of QCD with slightly heavy u and d quarks. Our results suggest that the SFtX method is powerful in extracting physical observables on the lattice.
In lattice QCD with Wilson-type quarks, the chiral symmetry is explicitly broken by the Wilson term on finite lattices. Though the symmetry is guaranteed to recover in the continuum limit, a series of non-trivial procedures are required to recover th
e correct renormalized theory in the continuum limit. Recently, a new use of the gradient flow technique was proposed, in which correctly renormalized quantities are evaluated in the vanishing flow-time limit. This enables us to directly study the chiral condensate and its susceptibility with Wilson-type quarks. Extending our previous study of the chiral condensate and its disconnected susceptibility in (2+1)-flavor QCD at a heavy $u$, $d$ quark mass ($m_{pi}/m_{rho}simeq0.63$) and approximately physical $s$ quark mass, we compute the connected contributions to the chiral susceptibility in the temperature range of 178--348 MeV on a fine lattice with $asimeq0.07$ fm.
We study correlation functions of the energy-momentum tensor (EMT) in $(2+1)$-flavor full QCD to evaluate QGP viscosities. We adopt nonperturbatively improved Wilson fermion and Iwasaki gauge action. Our degenerate $u$, $d$ quark mass is rather heavy
with $m_{pi}/m_{rho}simeq0.63$, while the $s$ quark mass is set to approximately its physical value. Performing simulations on lattices with $N_t=16$ to 6 at a fine lattice spacing of $a=0.07$ fm, the temperature range of $Tsimeq174$--$464$ MeV is covered using the fixed-scale approach. We attempt to compute viscosities by three steps: (1) calculate two point correlation functions of non-perturbatively renormalized EMT applying the gradient flow method, (2) derive the spectral function from correlation function, and (3) extract viscosities from the spectral function applying the Kubo formula. We report on the status of the project and present preliminary results for the shear viscosity in the high temperature phase.
