Comparative study of topological charge

Abstract

Comparative study of topological charge is performed. Topological charges are measured by a cloverleaf operator on smoothed gauge configurations. Various types of smoothing techniques are employed. Agreement of topological charges in fermionic and gluonic definitions is examined. High consistency is observed between topological charges obtained by improved smoothing methods and those by the index theorem with the overlap-Dirac operator.

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, Contribution to the 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2014), 23-28 June 2014, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA