Introduction to Lattice QCD Lecturer: Philippe de Forcrand forcrand at itp.phys.ethz.ch Office HIT K 22.1 (Mo-Tue) Tutor: Wolfgang Unger wunger at itp.phys.ethz.ch Office HIT K 21.5 Lecture: Tue. 10:45-12:30 in HIT F 31.2 Exercises: Mo. 12:45-13:30 in HIT F 31.2

Exercises:

► Exercise 0: Reading assignment ("A Statistical Approach to Quantum Mechanics", M. Creutz, B. Freedman)

Java Applet on Path integral in Quantum Mechanics

► Exercise 1: Markov Chain, Detailed Balance, Metropolis, Ising Model: uebung01.pdf

► Exercise 2: Metropolis, Path Integral for Quantum Mechancs; Anharmonic Oscillator: uebung02.pdf

► Exercise 3: Green's Functions, Scalar Field Theory: uebung03.pdf

► Exercise 4: Metropolis Algorithm for phi^4: uebung04.pdf

► Exercise 5: Cluster Algorithm for the Ising model: uebung05.pdf

► Exercise 6: Hopping parameter expansion for phi^4: uebung06.pdf

► Exercise 7: Parameterization of SU(2) and SU(3) matrices, Haar measure: uebung07.pdf

Some Links on Lattice Gauge Theory:

Introductory Material:

► Introduction by Rajan Gupta:http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9807028

► Introductory Presentation by Hartmut Wittig: http://www.gk-eichtheorien.physik.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/Wittig.pdf

Lattice QCD Software Projects:

► FermiQCD: http://web2py.com/fermiqcd

► Columbia Physics System (CPS): http://phys.columbia.edu/~cqft/physics_sfw/physics_sfw.htm

Miscellaneous:

► Lattice QCD Blog: http://latticeqcd.blogspot.com/

► Resources of Michael Creutz: http://latticeguy.net/lattice.html