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# Twisted boundary conditions in lattice simulations

Sachrajda, C.T. and Villadoro, G. (2005) Twisted boundary conditions in lattice simulations. Physics Letters B, 609 (1-2), 73-85.

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## Abstract

By imposing twisted boundary conditions on quark fields it is possible to access components of momenta other than integer multiples of 2?/L on a lattice with spatial volume L3. We use chiral perturbation theory to study finite-volume effects with twisted boundary conditions for quantities without final-state interactions, such as meson masses, decay constants and semileptonic form factors, and confirm that they remain exponentially small with the volume. We show that this is also the case for partially twisted boundary conditions, in which (some of) the valence quarks satisfy twisted boundary conditions but the sea quarks satisfy periodic boundary conditions. This observation implies that it is not necessary to generate new gluon configurations for every choice of the twist angle, making the method much more practicable. For K ??? decays we show that the breaking of isospin symmetry by the twisted boundary conditions implies that the amplitudes cannot be determined in general (on this point we disagree with a recent claim).

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Published date: 2005

## Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 45389
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/45389
ISSN: 0370-2693
PURE UUID: 2103da99-8232-4762-93f6-bb690c00bff4

## Catalogue record

Date deposited: 27 Mar 2007

## Contributors

Author: C.T. Sachrajda