Locality and exponential error reduction in numerical lattice gauge theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2001, Pages

  Lüscher, Martin ^a,c   Weisz, Peter ^b,d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confinement; Lattice Gauge Field Theories; Statistical Methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744864926     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/09/010     Document Type: Article

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