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Publications and source records attributed to Matteo Beccaria.
We simulate the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in 2+1 dimensions. The Hopf-Cole transformation is used in order to obtain a stable numerical scheme. The two relevant critical exponents are precisely measured. (2 PostScript figures available from the authors)
We consider a lattice version of the bosonized Gross-Neveu model. It is explicitely chiral symmetric and its numerical simulation does not involve any anticommuting field. We study its non trivial $1/N$ expansion up to the next-to-leading term comparing the results with explicit numerical simulations.
Using an operatorial formalism, we study the Kramers equation and its applications to numerical simulations. We obtain classes of algorithms which may be made precise at every desired order in the time step $ε$ and with a set of free parameters which can be used to reduce autocorrelations. We show that it is possible to use a global Metropolis test to restore Detailed Balance.
We continue the investigation on the applications of the Kramers equation to the numerical simulation of field theoretic models. In a previous paper we have described the theory and proposed various algorithms. Here, we compare the simplest of them with the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm studying the two-dimensional lattice Gross-Neveu model. We used a Symanzik improved action with dynamical Wilson fermions. Both the algorithms allow for the determination of the critical mass. Their performances in the definite phase simulations are comparable with the Hybrid Monte Carlo. For the two methods, the numerical values of the measured quantities agree within the errors and are compatible with the theoretical predictions; moreover, the Kramers algorithm is safer from the point of view of the numerical precision.
If the top is very heavy, m_t >> M_Z, the dominant radiative correction effects in all electroweak precision tests can be exactly characterized in terms of two quantities, the rho-parameter and the GIM violating Z -> b bbar coupling. These quantities can be computed using the Standard Model Lagrangian with vanishing gauge couplings. This is done here up to two loops for arbitrary values of the Higgs mass.