Testing reweighting method for truncated Overlap fermions

TL;DR

This paper explores a reweighting method to restore chiral symmetry in truncated overlap fermions within lattice QCD, aiming to reduce computational costs while maintaining symmetry accuracy during measurements.

Contribution

The authors propose a stepwise reweighting approach to mitigate large fluctuations in the reweighting factor caused by eigenvalue issues, improving the feasibility of using truncated overlap fermions.

Findings

Large fluctuations in reweighting factors linked to small eigenvalues.

Gradual truncation increase helps control reweighting discrepancies.

Eigenvalue analysis explains fluctuation origins.

Abstract

The lattice QCD simulation with the lattice chiral symmetry is very attractive, however, it is difficult to maintain the symmetry at a modest numerical computation cost. A candidate to reduce the computational cost during the configuration generation with the HMC algorithm is to relax the requirement of the chiral symmetry and to use the reweighing method recovering the symmetry at the measurement phase. In this talk, we presented the reweighing method to restore the chiral symmetry of the truncated overlap fermion operator. In order to avoid the large discrepancy between the truncated overlap operator and the exact overlap operator, we split the reweighting factor into several steps gradually increasing the order of truncation. We investigated the truncation dependence of the reweighting factor on a set of quenched $8^3\times 32$ lattice configurations generated with the DBW2 gauge action. We found that a large fluctuation on the reweighting factor between a high-order truncated overlap operator and the exact overlap operator on a couple of configurations. The origin of the large fluctuation seems to be due to a small eigenvalue of the overlap kernel on these configurations.