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Gluon Propagators

Renwick James Hudspith edited this page Sep 28, 2016 · 5 revisions

GLU supports several gluon propagator calculations.


Gluon Propagators

A gluon propagator in momentum space is defined as

Landau gauge

In Landau gauge $\mu,\nu$ run in all ND-dimensions. Generically the propagator has Longitudinal and Transverse components,

The Landau gauge condition in configuration space is

In momentum space this becomes

I define the lattice momentum in the usual manner,

Where n_\mu is an integer Fourier mode,

The factor of e^{iaq_\mu/2} comes from the gauge fields being well approximated by lying halfway between the lattice sites.

We can define projectors for the transverse and longitudinal components,

Because of the Landau condition in momentum space, the longitudinal component is zero as is the second term in the transverse component, so this expression just leaves a Kronecker delta.

We write out the transverse component in Big Endian binary format.

Coulomb gauge

Coulomb gauge propagators are different. I use indices i and j to define indices running only in the spatial directions. The Coulomb condition is simply,

We can define both spatial and temporal propagators

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