Published July 28, 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Testing microcanonical simulation with SU(2) lattice gauge theory

  • 1. Kyoto Univ. (Japan). Research Inst. for Fundamental Physics
  • 2. National Lab. for High Energy Physics, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)
  • 3. Tsukuba Univ., Sakura, Ibaraki (Japan). Inst. of Physics

Description

The validity of microcanonical simulation is studied with SU(2) lattice gauge theory with particular stress on the issue of the ergodicity problem. It is found that the hamiltonian flow generates a distribution in good agreement with the microcanonical one even in the weak-coupling region for which the system is close to being integrable. It is also shown that the microcanonical and canonical methods yield results in good agreement not only for the plaquette average but also for the Wilson loop. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Nucl. Phys. B, Field Theory Stat. Syst.
Journal Volume
270
Journal Issue
3
Series
Nucl. Phys. B, Field Theory Stat. Syst.
Journal Page Range
365-378
ISSN
0169-6823
CODEN
NBSSD