Interpreting Numerical Measurements in Fixed Topological Sectors
  For quantum field theories with topological sectors, Monte Carlo simulations on fine lattices tend to be obstructed by an extremely long auto-correlation time with respect to the topological charge. Then reliable numerical measurements are feasible only within individual sectors. The challenge is to assemble such restricted measurements in a way that leads to a substantiated approximation to the fully fledged result, which would correspond to the correct sampling over the entire set of configurations. We test an approach for such a topological summation, which was suggested by Brower, Chandrasekharan, Negele and Wiese. Under suitable conditions, energy levels and susceptibilities can be obtained to a good accuracy, as we demonstrate for O(N) models, SU(2) Yang-Mills theory, and for the Schwinger model. 
Wolfgang Bietenholz, Christopher Czaban, Arthur Dromard, Urs Gerber,   Christoph P. Hofmann, H\'ector Mej\'ia-D\'iaz and Mar...
hep-lat hep-ph