LatticeYangMills

Suite for generating field configurations in pure Yang-Mills SU(3) theory and compute basic observables on them. By Giovanni Pederiva.

See https://github.com/GioPede/MasterThesis for the Master of Science thesis this code has been developed for.

Current Implementation

Algorithms

• Metropolis Algorith for generating ensembles of lattice gauge field configurations
• Gradient Flow see https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4518 for studying non linear properties of the fields

  Observables

• Plaquette
• Energy Density (clover)
• Topological Charge (clover)

  Actions

• Wilson Gluon Action

Libraries Used

• Open MPI https://www.open-mpi.org/
• nlohman/json https://github.com/nlohmann/json by Niels Lohmann
• taocpp/operator https://github.com/taocpp/operators by Daniel Frey and Colin Hirsch (recent addition, experimental)
• CMake https://cmake.org/

Caveats

• The project is under active development
• The documentation is still incomplete
• Project might not build, current branch is the unstable one.
• Use CMake to build, only GCC 5.3 has been tested