We investigate the exact results for circular 1/4 and 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the d = 3 N = 4 super Chern-Simons-matter theory that could be obtained by orbifolding Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory. ...We investigate the exact results for circular 1/4 and 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the d = 3 N = 4 super Chern-Simons-matter theory that could be obtained by orbifolding Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory. The partition function of the Af = 4 orbifold ABJM theory has been computed previously in the literature. In this paper, we re-derive it using a slightly different method. We calculate the vacuum expectation values of the circular 1/4 BPS Wilson loops in fundamental representation and of circular 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in arbitrary representations. We use both the saddle point approach and Fermi gas approach. The results for Wilson loops are in accord with the available gravity results.展开更多
Calculation of disconnected quark loops in lattice QCD is very time consuming.Stochastic noise methods are generally used to estimate these loops.However,stochastic estimation gives large errors in the calculations of...Calculation of disconnected quark loops in lattice QCD is very time consuming.Stochastic noise methods are generally used to estimate these loops.However,stochastic estimation gives large errors in the calculations of disconnected diagrams.We use the symmetric multi-probing source(SMP)method to estimate the disconnected quark loops,and compare the results with the Z(2)noise method and the spin-color explicit(SCE)method on a quenched lattice QCD ensemble with lattice volume 12^3×24 and lattice spacing a≈0.1 fm.The results show that the SMP method is very suitable for the calculation of pseudoscalar disconnected quark loops.However,the SMP and SCE methods do not have an obvious advantage over the Z(2)noise method in the evaluation of the scalar disconnected loops.展开更多
基金Supported by NSFC(11222549,11575202)K.C.Wong Education FoundationYouth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(2011016)
文摘We investigate the exact results for circular 1/4 and 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the d = 3 N = 4 super Chern-Simons-matter theory that could be obtained by orbifolding Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory. The partition function of the Af = 4 orbifold ABJM theory has been computed previously in the literature. In this paper, we re-derive it using a slightly different method. We calculate the vacuum expectation values of the circular 1/4 BPS Wilson loops in fundamental representation and of circular 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in arbitrary representations. We use both the saddle point approach and Fermi gas approach. The results for Wilson loops are in accord with the available gravity results.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(11335001)
文摘Calculation of disconnected quark loops in lattice QCD is very time consuming.Stochastic noise methods are generally used to estimate these loops.However,stochastic estimation gives large errors in the calculations of disconnected diagrams.We use the symmetric multi-probing source(SMP)method to estimate the disconnected quark loops,and compare the results with the Z(2)noise method and the spin-color explicit(SCE)method on a quenched lattice QCD ensemble with lattice volume 12^3×24 and lattice spacing a≈0.1 fm.The results show that the SMP method is very suitable for the calculation of pseudoscalar disconnected quark loops.However,the SMP and SCE methods do not have an obvious advantage over the Z(2)noise method in the evaluation of the scalar disconnected loops.