On the discretization of physical momenta in lattice QCD

Abstract

The adoption of two distinct boundary conditions for two fermions species on a finite lattice allows to deal with arbitrary relative momentum between the two particle species, in spite of the momentum quantization rule due to a limited physical box size. We test the physical significance of this topological momentum by checking in the continuum limit the validity of the expected energy-momentum dispersion relations.

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures; references added; no changes in text or results; version accepted for pubblication in Phys. Lett. B