Lattice quantum chromodynamics : practical essentials /: practical essentials. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Francesco Knechtli, Michael Günther, Michael Peardon.
• Authors: Knechtli, Francesco; Günther, Michael; Peardon, Michael
• Contents: Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on the Lattice -- A brief history of quarks and gluons -- Classical fields and gauge invariance -- Hamiltonian and path integral formulations of quantum mechanics -- Quantum fields on a lattice -- Recovering continuum QCD -- Further reading -- Monte Carlo methods -- Markov chain Monte Carlo -- Sampling Yang?Mills gauge fields -- Hybrid Monte Carlo -- Symplectic integration schemes -- Summary and Further reading -- Handling fermions on the lattice -- Wick contractions -- Sparse Linear Algebra -- Fermion determinant -- HMC with fermions revisited -- The quark propagator from a point source -- All-to-all quark propagators -- Summary and Further reading -- Calculating observables of quantum fields -- Symmetry properties of creation and annihilation operators -- Techniques for hadron spectroscopy -- Gluons, Wilson Loops and glueballs -- Quarks and hadron physics -- Statistical data analysis -- Summary -- A Notational conventions -- A.1 SU(N) notation -- A.2 Fermions -- A.3 Probability spaces -- References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (149 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 530.143; Physics; Computers; Mathematical physics; Quantum field theory; String models; Particles (Nuclear physics); SCIENCE -- Energy; SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General; SCIENCE -- Physics -- General; Computers; Mathematical physics; Particles (Nuclear physics); Physics; Quantum field theory; String models; Electronic book; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789402409994; 9402409998
• Related ISBNs: 9789402409994; 9402409971; 9789402409970
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
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