Smeared Gauge Fixing

Abstract

We present a new method of gauge fixing to standard lattice Landau gauge, Max Re Tr ${\sum }_{\mu ,x}{U}_{\mu ,x}$, in which the link configuration is recursively smeared; these smeared links are then gauge fixed by standard extremization. The resulting gauge transformation is simultaneously applied to the original links. Following this preconditioning, the links are gauge fixed again as usual. This method is free of Gribov copies, and we find that for physical parameters ($\beta \ge 2$ in SU(2)), it generally results in the gauge fixed configuration with the globally maximal trace. This method is a general technique for finding a unique minimum to global optimization problems.

3 pages, 4 PostScript figures; Poster presented at LAT97

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