Massive Photons: An Infrared Regularization Scheme for Lattice

Standard methods for including electromagnetic interactions in lattice quantum chromodynamics calculations result in power-law finite-volume corrections to physical quantities. Removing these by extrapolation requires costly computations at multiple volumes. We introduce a photon mass to alternative...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shindler, Andrea, Tiburzi, Brian C., Walker-Loud, André, Endres, Michael G
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110393
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1411-360X