Fourier Accelerated Conjugate Gradient Lattice Gauge Fixing

Abstract

We provide details of the first implementation of a non-linear conjugate gradient method for Landau and Coulomb gauge fixing with Fourier acceleration. We find clear improvement over the Fourier accelerated steepest descent method, with the average time taken for the algorithm to converge to a fixed, high accuracy, being reduced by a factor of 2 to 4.

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure