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Comment on "'t Hooft vertices, partial quenching, and rooted staggered QCD"
Michael Creutz
A recent criticism of the proof of the failure of the rooting procedure with staggered fermions is shown to be incorrect.
The saga of rooted staggered quarks
Michael Creutz
I look at the rooting controversy from a historical point of view and review how I have come to the conclusion that these simulations involving staggered quarks must be discarded.
Four-dimensional graphene and chiral fermions
Michael Creutz
Motivated by the description of the graphene electronic structure in terms of the relativistic Dirac equation, a generalization to four dimensions yields a strictly local fermion a…
Why rooting fails
Michael Creutz
I explore the origins of the unphysical predictions from rooted staggered fermion algorithms. Before rooting, the exact chiral symmetry of staggered fermions is a flavored symmetry…
Effective potentials, thermodynamics, and twisted mass quarks
Michael Creutz
Using effective Lagrangian arguments, I explore the qualitative behavior expected at finite temperature for two flavor lattice QCD formulated with Wilson fermions and a twisted mas…
Chiral anomalies and rooted staggered fermions
Michael Creutz
A popular approximation in lattice gauge theory is an extrapolation in the number of fermion species away from the four fold degeneracy natural with the staggered fermion formulati…