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Hiroshi Suzuki

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Nf=2+1 QCD thermodynamics with gradient flow using two-loop matching coefficients

We study thermodynamic properties of Nf=2+1 QCD on the lattice adopting O(a)-improved Wilson quark action and Iwasaki gauge action. To cope with the problems due to explicit violation of the Poincare and chiral symmetries, we apply the Small Flow-time eXpansion (SFtX) method based on the gradient flow, which is a general method to correctly calculate any renormalized observables on the lattice. In this method, the matching coefficients in front of operators in the small flow-time expansion are calculated by perturbation theory. In a previous study using one-loop matching coefficients, we found that the SFtX method works well for the equation of state, chiral condensates and susceptibilities. In this paper, we study the effect of two-loop matching coefficients by Harlander et al. We also test the influence of the renormalization scale in the SFtX method. We find that, by adopting the mu_0 renormalization scale of Harlander et al. instead of the conventional mu_d=1/sqrt{8t} scale, the linear behavior at large t is improved so that we can perform the t -> 0 extrapolation of the SFtX method more confidently. In the calculation of the two-loop matching coefficients by Harlander et al., the equation of motion for quark fields was used. For the entropy density in which the equation of motion has no effects, we find that the results using the two-loop coefficients agree well with those using one-loop coefficients. On the other hand, for the trace anomaly which is affected by the equation of motion, we find discrepancies between the one- and two-loop results at high temperatures. By comparing the results of one-loop coefficients with and without using the equation of motion, the main origin of the discrepancies is suggested to be attributed to O((aT)^2)=O(1/N_t^2) discretization errors in the equation of motion at N_t =< 10.

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Four quark operators for kaon bag parameter with gradient flow

To study the CP-violation using the $K_0-\bar{K}_0$ oscillation, we need the kaon bag parameter which represents QCD corrections in the leading Feynman diagrams. The lattice QCD provides us with the only way to evaluate the kaon bag parameter directly from the first principles of QCD. However, a calculation of relevant four quark operators with theoretically sound Wilson-type lattice quarks had to carry a numerically big burden of extra renormalizations and resolution of extra mixings due to the explicit chiral violation. Recently, the Small Flow-time eXpansion (SFtX) method was proposed as a general method based on the gradient flow to correctly calculate any renormalized observables on the lattice, irrespective of the explicit violations of related symmetries on the lattice. To apply the SFtX method, we need matching coefficients, which relate finite operators at small flow-times in the gradient flow scheme to renormalized observables in conventional renormalization schemes. In this paper, we calculate the matching coefficients for four quark operators and quark bi-linear operators, relevant to the kaon bag parameter.

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More on the infrared renormalon in $SU(N)$ QCD(adj.) on $\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1$

We present additional observations to previous studies on the infrared (IR) renormalon in $SU(N)$ QCD(adj.), the $SU(N)$ gauge theory with $n_W$-flavor adjoint Weyl fermions on~$\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1$ with the $\mathbb{Z}_N$ twisted boundary condition. First, we show that, for arbitrary finite~$N$, a logarithmic factor in the vacuum polarization of the "photon" (the gauge boson associated with the Cartan generators of~$SU(N)$) disappears under the $S^1$~compactification. Since the IR renormalon is attributed to the presence of this logarithmic factor, it is concluded that there is no IR renormalon in this system with finite~$N$. This result generalizes the observation made by Anber and~Sulejmanpasic [J. High Energy Phys.\ \textbf{1501}, 139 (2015)] for $N=2$ and~$3$ to arbitrary finite~$N$. Next, we point out that, although renormalon ambiguities do not appear through the Borel procedure in this system, an ambiguity appears in an alternative resummation procedure in which a resummed quantity is given by a momentum integration where the inverse of the vacuum polarization is included as the integrand. Such an ambiguity is caused by a simple zero at non-zero momentum of the vacuum polarization. Under the decompactification~$R\to\infty$, where $R$ is the radius of the $S^1$, this ambiguity in the momentum integration smoothly reduces to the IR renormalon ambiguity in~$\mathbb{R}^4$. We term this ambiguity in the momentum integration "renormalon precursor". The emergence of the IR renormalon ambiguity in~$\mathbb{R}^4$ under the decompactification can be naturally understood with this notion.

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Vacuum energy of the supersymmetric $\mathbb{C}P^{N-1}$ model on $\mathbb{R}\times S^1$ in the $1/N$ expansion

By employing the $1/N$ expansion, we compute the vacuum energy~$E(δε)$ of the two-dimensional supersymmetric (SUSY) $\mathbb{C}P^{N-1}$ model on~$\mathbb{R}\times S^1$ with $\mathbb{Z}_N$ twisted boundary conditions to the second order in a SUSY-breaking parameter~$δε$. This quantity was vigorously studied recently by Fujimori et\ al.\ using a semi-classical approximation based on the bion, motivated by a possible semi-classical picture on the infrared renormalon. In our calculation, we find that the parameter~$δε$ receives renormalization and, after this renormalization, the vacuum energy becomes ultraviolet finite. To the next-to-leading order of the $1/N$ expansion, we find that the vacuum energy normalized by the radius of the~$S^1$, $R$, $RE(δε)$ behaves as inverse powers of~$ΛR$ for~$ΛR$ small, where $Λ$ is the dynamical scale. Since $Λ$ is related to the renormalized 't~Hooft coupling~$λ_R$ as~$Λ\sim e^{-2π/λ_R}$, to the order of the $1/N$ expansion we work out, the vacuum energy is a purely non-perturbative quantity and has no well-defined weak coupling expansion in~$λ_R$.

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Infrared renormalon in the supersymmetric $\mathbb{C}P^{N-1}$ model on $\mathbb{R}\times S^1$

In the leading order of the large-$N$ approximation, we study the renormalon ambiguity in the gluon (or, more appropriately, photon) condensate in the 2D supersymmetric $\mathbb{C}P^{N-1}$ model on~$\mathbb{R}\times S^1$ with the $\mathbb{Z}_N$ twisted boundary conditions. In our large~$N$ limit, the combination $ΛR$, where $Λ$ is the dynamical scale and $R$~is the $S^1$ radius, is kept fixed (we set $ΛR\ll1$ so that the perturbative expansion with respect to the coupling constant at the mass scale~$1/R$ is meaningful). We extract the perturbative part from the large-$N$ expression of the gluon condensate and obtain the corresponding Borel transform~$B(u)$. For~$\mathbb{R}\times S^1$, we find that the Borel singularity at~$u=2$, which exists in the system on the uncompactified~$\mathbb{R}^2$ and corresponds to twice the minimal bion action, disappears. Instead, an unfamiliar renormalon singularity \emph{emerges\/} at~$u=3/2$ for the compactified space~$\mathbb{R}\times S^1$. The semi-classical interpretation of this peculiar singularity is not clear because $u=3/2$ is not dividable by the minimal bion action. It appears that our observation for the system on~$\mathbb{R}\times S^1$ prompts reconsideration on the semi-classical bion picture of the infrared renormalon.

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Infrared renormalon in $SU(N)$ QCD(adj.) on $\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1$

We study the infrared renormalon in the gluon condensate in the $SU(N)$ gauge theory with $n_W$-flavor adjoint Weyl fermions (QCD(adj.)) on~$\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1$ with the $\mathbb{Z}_N$ twisted boundary conditions. We rely on the so-called large-$β_0$ approximation as a conventional tool to analyze the renormalon, in which only Feynman diagrams that dominate in the large-$n_W$ limit are considered while the coefficient of the vacuum polarization is set by hand to the one-loop beta function~$β_0=11/3-2n_W/3$. In the large~$N$ limit within the large-$β_0$ approximation, the W-boson, which acquires the twisted Kaluza--Klein momentum, produces the renormalon ambiguity corresponding to the Borel singularity at~$u=2$. This provides an example that the system in the compactified space~$\mathbb{R}^3\times S^1$ possesses the renormalon ambiguity identical to that in the uncompactified space~$\mathbb{R}^4$. We also discuss the subtle issue that the location of the Borel singularity can change depending on the order of two necessary operations.

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Calculation of PCAC mass with Wilson fermion using gradient flow

We calculate the PCAC mass for $(2+1)$ flavor full QCD with Wilson-type quarks. We adopt the Small Flow-time eXpansion (SFtX) method based on the gradient flow which provides us a general way to compute correctly renormalized observables even if the relevant symmetries for the observable are broken explicitly due to the lattice regularization, such as the Poincáre and chiral symmetries. Our calculation is performed on heavy $u, d$ quarks mass ($m_π/m_ρ\simeq0.63$) and approximately physical $s$ quark mass with fine lattice $a \simeq 0.07$~fm. The results are compared with those computed with the Schrödinger functional method.

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Renormalon structure in compactified spacetime

We point out that the location of renormalon singularities in theory on a circle-compactified spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{d-1} \times S^1$ (with a small radius $R Λ\ll 1$) can differ from that on the non-compactified spacetime $\mathbb{R}^d$. We argue this under the following assumptions, which are often realized in large $N$ theories with twisted boundary conditions: (i) a loop integrand of a renormalon diagram is volume independent, i.e. it is not modified by the compactification, and (ii) the loop momentum variable along the $S^1$ direction is not associated with the twisted boundary conditions and takes the values $n/R$ with integer $n$. We find that the Borel singularity is generally shifted by $-1/2$ in the Borel $u$-plane, where the renormalon ambiguity of $\mathcal{O}(Λ^k)$ is changed to $\mathcal{O}(Λ^{k-1}/R)$ due to the circle compactification $\mathbb{R}^d \to \mathbb{R}^{d-1} \times S^1$. The result is general for any dimension $d$ and is independent of details of the quantities under consideration. As an example, we study the $\mathbb{C} P^{N-1}$ model on $\mathbb{R} \times S^1$ with $\mathbb{Z}_N$ twisted boundary conditions in the large $N$ limit.

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Study of 2+1 flavor finite-temperature QCD using improved Wilson quarks at the physical point with the gradient flow

We study thermodynamic properties of 2+1 flavor QCD applying the Small Flow-time eXpansion (SFtX) method based on the gradient flow. The method provides us with a general way to compute correctly renormalized observables irrespective of explicit violation of symmetries due to the regularization, such as the Poincare and chiral symmetries on the lattice. We report on the status of our on-going project to compute the energy-momentum tensor and the chiral condensate at the physical point with improved Wilson quarks, extending our previous study with slightly heavy u and d quarks. We also report on our test of two-loop matching coefficients recently calculated by Harlander et al., revisiting the case of QCD with slightly heavy u and d quarks. Our results suggest that the SFtX method is powerful in extracting physical observables on the lattice.

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Renormalon-free definition of the gluon condensate within the large-$β_0$ approximation

We propose a clear definition of the gluon condensate within the large-$β_0$ approximation as an attempt toward a systematic argument on the gluon condensate. We define the gluon condensate such that it is free from a renormalon uncertainty, consistent with the renormalization scale independence of each term of the operator product expansion (OPE), and an identical object irrespective of observables. The renormalon uncertainty of $\mathcal{O}(Λ^4)$, which renders the gluon condensate ambiguous, is separated from a perturbative calculation by using a recently suggested analytic formulation. The renormalon uncertainty is absorbed into the gluon condensate in the OPE, which makes the gluon condensate free from the renormalon uncertainty. As a result, we can define the OPE in a renormalon-free way. Based on this renormalon-free OPE formula, we discuss numerical extraction of the gluon condensate using the lattice data of the energy density operator defined by the Yang--Mills gradient flow.

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Exploring Nf=2+1 QCD thermodynamics from the gradient flow

The energy-momentum tensor plays an important role in QCD thermodynamics. Its expectation value contains information of the pressure and the energy density as its diagonal part. Further properties like viscosity and specific heat can be extracted from its correlation function. Recently a new method based on the gradient flow was introduced to calculate the energy-momentum tensor on the lattice, and has been successfully applied to quenched QCD. In this paper, we apply the gradient flow method to calculate the energy-momentum tensor in (2+1)-flavor QCD. As the first application of the method with dynamical quarks, we study at a single but fine lattice spacing a=0.07 fm with heavy u and d quarks ($m_π/m_ρ=0.63$) and approximately physical s quark. Performing simulations on lattices with Nt=16 to 4, the temperature range of T=174-697 MeV is covered. We find that the results of the pressure and the energy density by the gradient flow method are consistent with the previous results using the T-integration method at T<280 MeV, while the results show disagreement at T>350 MeV (Nt<8), presumably due to the small-Nt lattice artifact of $O((aT)^2)=O(1/N_t^2)$. We also apply the gradient flow method to evaluate the chiral condensate taking advantage of the gradient flow method that renormalized quantities can be directly computed avoiding the difficulty of explicit chiral violation with lattice quarks. We compute the renormalized chiral condensate in the MS-bar scheme at renormalization scale $μ=2$ GeV with a high precision to study the temperature dependence of the chiral condensate and its disconnected susceptibility. Even with the Wilson-type quark action, we obtain the chiral condensate and its disconnected susceptibility showing a clear signal of pseudocritical temperature at T~190 MeV related to the chiral restoration crossover.

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Thermodynamics in quenched QCD: energy--momentum tensor with two-loop order coefficients in the gradient flow formalism

Recently, Harlander et al.\ [Eur.\ Phys.\ J.\ C {\bf 78}, 944 (2018)] have computed the two-loop order (i.e., NNLO) coefficients in the gradient-flow representation of the energy--momentum tensor (EMT) in vector-like gauge theories. In this paper, we study the effect of the two-loop order corrections (and the three-loop order correction for the trace part of the EMT, which is available through the trace anomaly) on the lattice computation of thermodynamic quantities in quenched QCD. The use of the two-loop order coefficients generally reduces the $t$~dependence of the expectation values of the EMT in the gradient-flow representation, where $t$~is the flow time. With the use of the two-loop order coefficients, therefore, the $t\to0$ extrapolation becomes less sensitive to the fit function, the fit range, and the choice of the renormalization scale; the systematic error associated with these factors is considerably reduced.

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Derivation of a Gradient Flow from ERG

We establish a concrete correspondence between a gradient flow and the renormalization group flow for a generic scalar field theory. We use the exact renormalization group formalism with a particular choice of the cutoff function.

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Measuring of chiral susceptibility using gradient flow

In lattice QCD with Wilson-type quarks, the chiral symmetry is explicitly broken by the Wilson term on finite lattices. Though the symmetry is guaranteed to recover in the continuum limit, a series of non-trivial procedures are required to recover the correct renormalized theory in the continuum limit. Recently, a new use of the gradient flow technique was proposed, in which correctly renormalized quantities are evaluated in the vanishing flow-time limit. This enables us to directly study the chiral condensate and its susceptibility with Wilson-type quarks. Extending our previous study of the chiral condensate and its disconnected susceptibility in (2+1)-flavor QCD at a heavy $u$, $d$ quark mass ($m_π/m_ρ\simeq0.63$) and approximately physical $s$ quark mass, we compute the connected contributions to the chiral susceptibility in the temperature range of 178--348 MeV on a fine lattice with $a\simeq0.07$ fm.

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Study of energy-momentum tensor correlation function in $N_f=2+1$ full QCD for QGP viscosities

We study correlation functions of the energy-momentum tensor (EMT) in $(2+1)$-flavor full QCD to evaluate QGP viscosities. We adopt nonperturbatively improved Wilson fermion and Iwasaki gauge action. Our degenerate $u$, $d$ quark mass is rather heavy with $m_π/m_ρ\simeq0.63$, while the $s$ quark mass is set to approximately its physical value. Performing simulations on lattices with $N_t=16$ to 6 at a fine lattice spacing of $a=0.07$ fm, the temperature range of $T\simeq174$--$464$ MeV is covered using the fixed-scale approach. We attempt to compute viscosities by three steps: (1) calculate two point correlation functions of non-perturbatively renormalized EMT applying the gradient flow method, (2) derive the spectral function from correlation function, and (3) extract viscosities from the spectral function applying the Kubo formula. We report on the status of the project and present preliminary results for the shear viscosity in the high temperature phase.

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Gradient flow representation of the four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ super Yang--Mills supercurrent

In K.~Hieda, A.~Kasai, H.~Makino, and H.~Suzuki, Prog.\ Theor.\ Exp.\ Phys.\ \textbf{2017}, 063B03 (2017), a properly normalized supercurrent in the four-dimensional (4D) $\mathcal{N}=1$ super Yang--Mills theory (SYM) that works within on-mass-shell correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators is expressed in a regularization-independent manner by employing the gradient flow. In the present paper, this construction is extended to the supercurrent in the 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ SYM. The so-constructed supercurrent will be useful, for instance, for fine tuning of lattice parameters toward the supersymmetric continuum limit in future lattice simulations of the 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ SYM.

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Numerical study of the $\mathcal{N}=2$ Landau--Ginzburg model

It is believed that the two-dimensional massless $\mathcal{N}=2$ Wess--Zumino model becomes the $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) in the infrared (IR) limit. We examine this theoretical conjecture of the Landau--Ginzburg (LG) description of the $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT by numerical simulations on the basis of a supersymmetric-invariant momentum-cutoff regularization. We study a single supermultiplet with cubic and quartic superpotentials. From two-point correlation functions in the IR region, we measure the scaling dimension and the central charge, which are consistent with the conjectured LG description of the $A_2$ and $A_3$ minimal models, respectively. Our result supports the theoretical conjecture and, at the same time, indicates a possible computational method of correlation functions in the $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT from the LG description.

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