O comportamento infra-vermelho dos propagadores de glúons e de ghosts é de fundamental importância para o entendimento do limite de baixas energias da cromodinâmica quântica (QCD), especialmente no que diz respeito ao problema do confinamento de quarks e de glúons. O objetivo desta tese é implementar um novo método para o estudo do propagador de glúons no calibre covariante linear para a QCD na rede. Em particular, analisamos em detalhe a nova implementação proposta e estudamos os algoritmos para fixação numérica deste calibre. Note que a fixação numérica da condição de calibre de Feynman apresenta vários problemas não encontrados nos casos de Landau e de Coulomb, o que impossibilitou por longo tempo o seu estudo adequado. De fato, a definição considerada inicialmente, por Giusti et. al., é de difícil implementação numérica e introduz condições espúrias na fixação de calibre. Como consequência, os únicos estudos efetuados anteriormente referem-se aos propagadores de glúons e de quarks em redes relativamente pequenas, não permitindo uma análise cuidadosa do limite infra-vemelho da QCD neste calibre. A obtenção de novas soluções para a implementação do calibre de Feynman na rede é portanto de grande importância para viabilizar estudos numéricos mais sistemáticos dos propagadores e dos vértices neste calibre e, em geral, no calibre covariante linear. / The infrared behavior of gluon and ghost propagators is of fundamental importance for the understanding of the low-energy limit of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), especially with respect to the problem of the confinement of quarks and gluons. The goal of this thesis is to implement a new method to study the gluon propagator in the linear covariant gauge in lattice QCD. In particular, we analyze in detail the newly proposed implementation and study the algorithms for numerically fixing this gauge. Note that the numerical fixing of the Feynman gauge condition poses several problems that are not present in the Landau and Coulomb cases, which prevented it from being properly studied for a long time. In fact, the definition considered initially, by Giusti et. al., is of difficult numerical implementation and introduces spurious conditions into the gauge fixing. As a consequence, the only studies carried out previously involved gluon and quark propagators on relatively small lattices, hindering a careful analysis of the infrared limit of QCD in this gauge. Obtaining new solutions for the implementation of the Feynman gauge on the lattice is therefore of great importance to enable more systematic numerical studies of propagators and vertices in this gauge and, in general, in the linear covariant gauge.

Un ordinateur quantique (OQ), i.e. utilisant les ressources de la physique Q, superposition et intrication, pourrait fournir un gain exponentiel de temps de calcul. Une simulation utilisant ces ressources est appelée simulation Q (SQ). L’avantage des SQs sur les simulations classiques est bien établi au niveau théorique, i.e. software. Leur avantage pratique requiert un hardware Q. L’OQ, sous-entendu universel (cf. plus bas), n’a pas encore vu le jour, mais les efforts en ce sens sont croissants et variés. Aussi la SQ a-t-elle déjà été illustrée par de nombreuses expériences de principe, grâce à des calculateurs ou simulateurs Qs de taille réduite. Les marches Qs (MQs) sont des schémas de SQ particulièrement étudiés, étant des briques élémentaires pour concevoir n’importe quel algorithme Q, i.e. pour le calcul Q universel. La présente thèse est un pas de plus vers une simulation des théories Qs des champs basée sur les MQs à temps discret (MQTD). En effet, il est montré, dans certains cas, comment les MQTD peuvent simuler, au continu, l'action d'un champ de jauge Yang-Mills sur de la matière fermionique, et la rétroaction de cette-dernière sur la dynamique du champ de jauge. Les schémas proposés préservent l’invariance de jauge au niveau de la grille d’espace-temps, i.e. pas seulement au continu. Il est proposé (i) des équations de Maxwell sur grille, compatibles avec la conservation du courant sur la grille, et (ii) une courbure non-abélienne définie sur la grille. De plus, il est montré comment cette matière fermionique à base de MQTD peut être couplée à des champs gravitationnels relativistes du continu, i.e. des espaces-temps courbes, en dimension 1+2. / A quantum (Q) computer (QC), i.e. utilizing the resources of Q physics, superposition of states and entanglement, could fournish an exponential gain in computing time. A simulation using such resources is called a Q simulation (QS). The advantage of QSs over classical ones is well established at the theoretical, i.e. software level. Their practical benefit requires their implementation on a Q hardware. The QC, i.e. the universal one (see below), has not seen the light of day yet, but the efforts in this direction are both growing and diverse. Also, QS has already been illustrated by numerous experimental proofs of principle, thanks too small-size and specific-task Q computers or simulators. Q walks (QWs) are particularly-studied QS schemes, being elementary bricks to conceive any Q algorithm, i.e. to achieve so-called universal Q computation. The present thesis is a step more towards a simulation of Q field theories based on discrete-time QWs (DTQWs). Indeed, it is shown, in certain cases, how DTQWs can simulate, in the continuum, the action of Yang-Mills gauge fields on fermionic matter, and the retroaction of the latter on the gauge-field dynamics. The suggested schemes preserve gauge invariance on the spacetime lattice, i.e. not only in the continuum. In the (1+2)D Abelian case, consistent lattice equivalents to both Maxwell’s equations and the current conservation are suggested. In the (1+1)D non-Abelian case, a lattice version of the non-Abelian field strength is suggested. Moreover, it is shown how this fermionic matter based on DTQWs can be coupled to relativistic gravitational fields of the continuum, i.e. to curved spacetimes, in several spatial dimensions.

Lattice gauge theories are crucial for our understanding of many physical phenomena ranging from fundamental particle interactions in high-energy physics to frustration and topological order in condensed matter. Hence, many equilibrium aspects of these theories have been studied intensively over the past decades. Recent developments, however, have shown that the study of nonequilibrium dynamics in lattice gauge theories also provides a very fertile ground for interesting phenomena. This thesis is devoted to the study of two particular dynamical processes in lattice gauge theories and related quantum spin models. First, we show that an interacting two-dimensional lattice gauge theory can exhibit disorder-free localization: a mechanism for ergodicity breaking due to local constraints imposed by gauge invariance. This result is particularly remarkable as the stability in two dimensions of the more conventional (disorder-induced) many-body localization is still debated. Concretely, we show this type of nonergodic behavior in the quantum link model. Our central result is based on a bound on the localization-delocalization transition, which is established through a concomitant classical percolation problem. Further, we develop a numerical method dubbed “variational classical networks”, to study the quantum dynamics in this system. This technique provides an efficient and perturbatively controlled representation of the wave function in terms of networks of classical spins akin to artificial neural networks. This allows us to identify distinguishing transport properties in the localized and ergodic phases, respectively. In the second problem, we study the dynamics of string breaking, a key process in confining gauge theories, where a string connecting two charges decays due to the creation of new particle-antiparticle pairs. Our main result here is that string breaking can also be observed in quantum Ising chains, in which domain walls get confined either by a symmetry-breaking field or by long-range interactions. We identify, in general, two distinct stages in this process. While at the beginning the initial charges remain stable, the string can exhibit complex dynamics with strong quantum correlations. We provide an effective description of this string motion, and find that it can be highly constrained. In the second stage, the string finally breaks at a timescale that depends sensitively on the initial separation of domain walls. We observe that the second stage can be significantly delayed as a consequence of the dynamical constraints appearing in the first stage. Finally, we discuss the generalization of our results to low-dimensional confining gauge theories. As a general aspect of this work, we discuss how the phenomena studied here could be realized experimentally with current and future technologies in quantum simulation. Furthermore, the methods developed in this thesis can also be applied to other lattice gauge theories and constrained quantum many-body models, not only to address purely theoretical questions but also to provide a theoretical description of experiments in quantum simulators. / Gittereichtheorien sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil im Verständnis vieler physikalischer Phänomene und Grundlage verschiedener Theorien, welche sich von der elementaren Wechselwirkungen in der Hochenergiephysik, Frustration in Spinmodellen bis hin zu topologischer Ordnung in der Festkörperphysik erstrecken. Die Eigenschaften von Eichtheorien im Gleichgewicht waren in den letzten Jahrzehnten ein zentraler Punkt der Forschung. Obwohl sich Untersuchungen der Dynamik jenseits des Gleichgewichs als eine große Herausfordung dargestellt haben, haben kürzliche Erkenntnisse gezeigt, dass die Dynamik in Gittereichtheorien überraschende und interessante Entdeckungen bereithält. Diese Dissertation behandelt zwei zentrale dynamische Prozesse in Gittereichtheorien und verwandten Spinmodellen. Einerseits soll die Dynamik von zweidimensionalen und wechselwirkenden Gittereichtheorien untersucht werden im Falle des sogenan- nten Quanten-Link-Modells untersucht werden. Entgegen der Ergodenhypothese zeigt das System Lokalisierung ohne Unordnung aufgrund lokaler Zwangsbedingungen durch Eininvarianz. Dieses Ergebnis ist insofern bemerkenswert, als die gewöhnliche, durch Unordnung induzierte, Vielteilchenlokalisierung in zwei Dimensionen umstritten ist. Als ein Hauptergebnis finden wir einen Übergang zwischen einer lokalisierten und ergodischen Phase, dessen Existenz durch ein zugehöriges klassisches Perkolationsproblem gezeigt werden konnte. Die quantenmechanischen Transporteigenschaften, elementar verschieden in der lokalisierten und ergodischen Phase, werden charakterisiert und untersucht. Die Lösung der quantenmechanischen Zeitentwicklung wird durch eine methodische Weiterentwicklung der sogenannten „variationellen klassischen Netzwerke“ erreicht Diese Methode stellt eine perturbative, aber kontrollierte Repräsentation von zeitentwickelten quantenmechanischen Wellenfunktionen dar in Form von Netzwerken klassischer Spins, ähnlich wie bei einem künstlichen neuronalen Netz. Im zweiten Teil untersuchen wir die Dynamik eines Schlüsselprozesses in Eichtheorien mit Confinement, welcher als „String-Breaking“ bezeichnet wird In diesem Prozess zerfällt der der Strang, der zwei elementare Ladungen verbindet, durch die Bildung neuer Teilchen-Antiteilchen-Paare. Ein Hauptresultat dieser Arbeit ist die Beobachtung dieses dynamischen Phänomens in Quantum-Ising-Ketten und damit in Systemen ohne Eichinvarianz. Das Confinement entsteht dabei zwischen Domänenwänden entweder durch eine langreichweitige Wechselwirkung zwischen den beteiligten Spins oder durch symmetriebrechende Magnetfelder. Es wird gezeigt, dass während des „String-breaking“ Prozesses das Modell zwei Phasen durchläuft: Während zu Beginn die Anfangsladungen stabil bleiben, weist der Strang eine komplexe Dynamik mit starken Quantenkorrelationen auf. Für diese erste Phase wird eine effektive Beschreibung eingeführt, um die verschiedenen Aspekte zu analysieren und zu verstehen. Die Zeitskalen zur Destabilisierung des Strangs innerhalb einer zweiten Phase zeigen eine starke Abhängigkeit von der anfänglichen Trennung der Domänenwände. Es wird gezeigt, dass die zweite Phase als Konsequenz der dynamischen Beschränkungen der ersten Phase signifikant verzögert werden kann. Diese Resultate können in niedrigdimensionalen Eichtheorien verallgemeinert werden. Weiterführend sollen die Ergebnisse als Grundlage einer experimentellen Realisierung durch Quantensimulationen dienen. Die entwickelten Methoden können auf andere Eichtheorien und verwandten Vielteilchenmodellen angewendet werden und bieten eine Plattform für weitere Ansätze.

Hard-core bosons are versatile and useful in describing several physical systems due to their one-to-one mapping with spin-1/2 operators. We propose two frameworks where hard-core boson mapping not only reduces the complexity of the original problem, but also captures important features of the physics of the original system that would have implied high-computational procedures with not much profound insight in the mechanisms behind its behavior. The first case study comprising part i is an approach to the description of the phases 2D Lattice Gauge Theories, the Quantum 6-Vertex Model and the Quantum Dimer Model using one fluctuating electric string as an 1D precursor of the whole 2D systems[HAMS19]. Both models and consequently the string are described by the Rokhsar-Kivelson Hamiltonian with parameter v measuring the competition of potential versus kinetic terms. The string can be mapped one-to-one onto a 1D system of hard-core bosons that can be solved exactly for the Quantum 6-Vertex Model, and offers footprints of the phase diagram of the Quantum Dimer Model in the region close to the Rokhsar-Kivelson point v = 1, especially when |v| ≤ 1. The second case study we have discussed in part ii is an extension of higher-dimensional bosonization techniques in Landau Fermi liquids to the case of nodal semimetals where the Fermi surface shrinks to a point, so the description of particle-hole interactions as fluctuations of the Fermi surface is not available [MS20]. Additionaly, we focus our analysis on the Q = 0 sector where the electron and the hole have opposite momenta ±k, so they are mapped into a hard-core boson located at a site k in the reciprocal lattice. To test our extension we calculate nonperturbative corrections to the optical conductivity of 2D Dirac fermions with electron-electron interactins described as a Coulomb potential, obtaining results consistent to the literature and the experimental reports where corrections are small even in strong coupling regimes. Part iii discusses further ideas derived from parts i and ii, including a brief discussion on addressing the weak coupling instability in bilayer graphene using the bosonization extension that offers a picture of hard-core bosons describing Q = 0 excitons that undergo a Bose-Einstein condensation resulting in a ground state adiabatically disconnected from the noninteracting case.:1 Introduction 1 1.1 Quantum link models and fluctuating electric strings 2 1.2 Bosonization of Particle-hole excitations in 2D Dirac fermions 7 1.3 Structure of the document 11 i. Quantum link models and fluctuating electric strings 2. A Brief Introduction to Lattice Gauge Theories 15 2.1 Continuous formulation of U(1) gauge theories 15 2.1.1 Gauge field equations 16 2.1.2 Gauss’ law as generator of the gauge transformations 18 2.2 U(1) gauge theories on a lattice 19 2.2.1 Gauge field Hamiltonian 20 2.2.2 Cylindrical algebra from LGT 20 2.2.3 Generator of gauge transformations 21 2.3 Abelian Quantum Link Model 22 2.3.1 Quantum Link Models (QLMs) with S = 1 / 2 23 2.3.2 ’t Hooft operators and winding number sectors 24 2.3.3 Construction of the QLM Hamiltonian 26 2.4 Conclusions 28 3. Electric string in Q6VM as a XXZ chain 29 3.1 Realization of the Q6VM in the S = 1 / 2 QLM 31 3.2 Mapping the electric string to the XXZ chain 32 3.3 Phases of the electric string from the XXZ chain 33 3.3.1 v > 1: FM insulator 34 3.3.2 v = 1: RK point 36 3.3.3 −1 < v < 1: Gapless phase 36 3.3.4 v ≤ −1: KT transition and AFM insulator 37 3.4 Numerical approach: Drude Weight and system size effects 38 3.5 Summary and Discussion 40 4. Electric line in the QDM as a hard-core boson two-leg ladder 41 4.1 Realization of the QDM in the S = 1/ 2 QLM 42 4.2 Construction of an electric string in the QDM 43 4.3 Mapping the electric string in QDM to a two-leg ladder 45 4.3.1 QLM in a triangular lattice 45 4.3.2 From the triangular lattice to the two-leg ladder 45 4.3.3 Construction of the 1D bosonic Hamiltonian 46 4.4 Phases of the electric string from the bosonic two-leg ladder 48 4.4.1 Left Hand Side (LHS) of the Rokhsar-Kivelson (RK) point: Charge Density Wave (CDW) states 48 4.4.2 Right Hand Side (RHS) of the RK point: phase-separated states 50 4.5 Numerical approach: Drude Weight and system size effects 51 4.6 Summary and Discussion 52 ii Bosonization of particle-hole excitations in 2D Dirac fermions 5 Graphene in a nutshell 57 5.1 Origin of the hexagonal structure 57 5.1.1 Hybrid orbitals in C 58 5.1.2 Honeycomb lattice 60 5.2 Tight-binding approach 61 5.2.1 Hopping and overlapping matrices in Nearest Neighbor (NN) approximation 62 5.2.2 Dispersion relation for π electrons 62 5.3 Effective 2D Dirac Fermion Hamiltonian 64 5.4 Electron-electron interactions 65 6 Bosonization of the Q = 0 continuum of Dirac Fermions 67 6.1 Effective Hamiltonian and Hilbert space 69 6.2 Effective Heisenberg Hamiltonian 70 6.3 Quadratic Bosonic Hamiltonian 71 6.4 Connection to diagramatic perturbation theory 73 6.5 Parametrization of the reciprocal space 74 6.5.1 Coordinate transformation 74 6.5.2 Polar parametrization 75 6.5.3 Angular momentum channels 75 6.6 Discussion and Summary 76 7 Non-perturbative corrections to the Optical Conductivity of 2D Dirac Fermions 77 7.1 Optical Conductivity 79 7.1.1 Bosonized current operator and susceptibility 79 7.1.2 Susceptibility in terms of the eigenstates 80 7.1.3 Regularization of the Lehman representation 81 7.2 Numerical approach: IR regularization and system size effects 82 7.2.1 Discretization size dependence 82 7.2.2 Dependence on the IR cutoff 83 7.2.3 Comparison of numerical results with corrections from first order perturbation theory 84 7.2.4 Optical conductivity for several coupling constants 85 7.3 Discussion and Summary 86 iii Weak coupling instability, New Perspectives & Conclusions 8 Weak coupling instability in bilayer graphene from a bosonization picture 91 8.1 Band structure of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene 92 8.2 Generalization of the effective Hamiltonian of graphene 93 8.2.1 Density of states in monolayer and bilayer graphene 94 8.2.2 Projection onto Q = 0 sector and effective Heisenberg pseudospin Hamiltonian 95 8.2.3 Zeeman vortex coordinates and HCB operators 95 8.2.4 Bogoliubov-Valatin basis 97 8.3 Interaction potentials 97 8.4 BCS instability in pseudospin picture 99 8.5 Numerical procedure 101 8.5.1 Numerical BCS instability 101 8.5.2 Functional form of the instability 101 8.5.3 Comparison to the instability from BCS theory 105 8.6 Conclusions 105 9 Conclusions 107 iv Appendices A. Yang & Yang’s expressions of ground state energy of XXZ Chain using Bethe Ansatz 115 A.1 Bethe Ansatz 115 A.2 Explicit formulas for f ( ∆, 0 ) 116 B. Kadanoff-Baym (KB) self-consistent Hartree-Fock (SCHF) approximation 119 B.1 Details of connection to perturbation theory 119 B.1.1 Bare and dressed fermion propagators 119 B.1.2 Bethe-Salpeter ladder 120 B.1.3 Particle-hole propagator and comparison to HP boson propagator 121 C, Optical Conductivity from Pseudospin precession 123 C.1 Minimal coupling and band (electron-hole) basis 123 C.2 Equations of motion of charge and pseudospin densities 124 C.3 Optical Conductivity from Fermi-Dirac distributions at finite temperature 124 D. Momentum space reparametrization 127 D.1 General coordinate transformations on the continuum limit 127 D.2 Polar re-discretization 129 D.3 Angular momentum channels 130 D.4 Selection of the radial parametrization 130 Bibliography 133

Cette thèse présente une étude détaillée de la structure de théories appelées GFT ("Group Field Theory" en anglais),à travers le prisme de la renormalisation. Ce sont des théories des champs issues de divers travaux en gravité quantique, parmi lesquels la gravité quantique à boucles et les modèles de matrices ou de tenseurs. Elles sont interprétées comme desmodèles d'espaces-temps quantiques, dans le sens où elles génèrent des amplitudes de Feynman indexées par des triangulations,qui interpolent les états spatiaux de la gravité quantique à boucles. Afin d'établir ces modèles comme des théories deschamps rigoureusement définies, puis de comprendre leurs conséquences dans l'infrarouge, il est primordial de comprendre leur renormalisation. C'est à cette tâche que cette thèse s'attèle, grâce à des méthodes tensorielles développées récemment,et dans deux directions complémentaires. Premièrement, de nouveaux résultats sur l'expansion asymptotique (en le cut-off) des modèles colorés de Boulatov-Ooguri sont démontrés, donnant accès à un régime non-perturbatif dans lequel une infinité de degrés de liberté contribue. Secondement, un formalisme général pour la renormalisation des GFTs dites tensorielles (TGFTs) et avec invariance de jauge est mis au point. Parmi ces théories, une TGFT en trois dimensions et basée sur le groupe de jauge SU(2) se révèle être juste renormalisable, ce qui ouvre la voie à l'application de ce formalisme à la gravité quantique. / In this thesis, we study the structure of Group Field Theories (GFTs) from the point of view of renormalization theory.Such quantum field theories are found in approaches to quantum gravity related to Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) on the one hand,and to matrix models and tensor models on the other hand. They model quantum space-time, in the sense that their Feynman amplitudes label triangulations, which can be understood as transition amplitudes between LQG spin network states. The question of renormalizability is crucial if one wants to establish interesting GFTs as well-defined (perturbative) quantum field theories, and in a second step connect them to known infrared gravitational physics. Relying on recently developed tensorial tools, this thesis explores the GFT formalism in two complementary directions. First, new results on the large cut-off expansion of the colored Boulatov-Ooguri models allow to explore further a non-perturbative regime in which infinitely many degrees of freedom contribute. The second set of results provide a new rigorous framework for the renormalization of so-called Tensorial GFTs (TGFTs) with gauge invariance condition. In particular, a non-trivial 3d TGFT with gauge group SU(2) is proven just-renormalizable at the perturbative level, hence opening the way to applications of the formalism to (3d Euclidean) quantum gravity.

Usando uma transformação de dualidade generalizada, considerações de simetria e supondo que as superfície críticas sejam contínuas, obtivemos o dia grama de fase para sistemas de spins Z (N) bidimensionais e sistemas com invariança de calibre Z (N) a quatro dimensões. Caracterizamos as diversas fases dos sistemas de spins pelo valor esperado das potências dos operadores de ordem e desordem. No sistema com invariança de calibre, por outro lado, estas fases caracterizadas pelo comportamento do valor esperado das potências das alças de Wilson e de \'t Hooft. Obtivemos para ambos os sistemas fases moles em que no caso de spins 2D (calibre 4D) todas as potências dos parâmetros de ordem e desordem ( todas as potências das alças de Wilson e \'t Hooft) são nulas (exibem decaimento com o perímetro da alça). Enquanto no sistema com invariança de calibre todas as combinações de decaimento (área ou perímetro) das alças de Wilson e \'t Hooft são permitidas, as relações de comutação no sistema de spins proíbe a existência de fases em que tanto o parâmetro de ordem como o de desordem são não nulos (exceto quando estes operadores comutam). Apresentamos por completeza as relações de dualidade para sistemas de calibre Z (N) com campos de Higgs a três dimensões. / Using a generalized duality transformation, symetry considerations and assuming that criticality is continuous in the system?s parameters, we obtain the phase diagram for two-dimensional Z (N) spins system?s and four-dimensional gauge Z (N) system\'s. For spins system we characterize the various phases by the expectation value of powers of the order and disorder operators. For gauge systems, on the other hand, the characterization is via decay law of powers of Wilson and \'t Hooft loops. We obtain soft phases for both systems, with the folowing, behaviour: for spins system all powers of order and disorder parameters vanish, whereas for gauge systems all powers of Wilson and \'t Hooft loops decay like the perimeter. Whereas all combinations of area and perimeter decay are allowed for Wilson\'s and \'t Hooft\'s loops, the Z (N) commutation relations for spin systems forbid the simultaneous non-vanishing of order and disorder parameters (except when these operators commute). For completeness we include the duality relations for three-dimensional gauge plus Higgs Z(N) systems.

Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Konstruktion verbesserter interpolierender Mesonenfelder in der Gitter-QCD. Sie hat das primäre Ziel, Korrelationsfunktionen mit einem deutlich reduzierten Beitrag des ersten angeregten Mesonenzustandes zu erhalten, um eine sicherere Bestimmung von Massen und Zerfallskonstanten der Mesonen zu ermöglichen. Eine Basis solcher interpolierender Mesonen-Randfelder wird im Schrödinger Funktional in der gequenchten Approximation benutzt. Verbesserte interpolierende Felder zur Bestimmung spektraler Eigenschaften leichter pseudoskalarer Mesonen sowie des B--Mesonensystems (letzteres wird in führender Ordnung der HQET behandelt) werden auf mehreren Wegen gewonnen. Ein Hilfsmittel, verbesserte Felder zu konstruieren, ist das Variationsprinzip. Es wird auf Matrizen von Rand-Rand-Korrelationsfunktionen angewandt. Darüber hinaus werden alternative Analysemethoden vorgestellt. Sie erlauben sowohl die Abschätzung der Grundzustandsenergie als auch der Energielücke zum ersten radial angeregten Zustand. Die Untersuchung des B-Mesonensystems ist in vielfacher Hinsicht interessant. Zum einen werden sie in sogenannten B-Fabriken, wie z. B. im BaBar- und Belle-Experiment, in grosser Zahl erzeugt, um ihre charakteristischen Eigenschaften (Masse, Zerfallsbreiten, CP-Symmetrie verletzende Zerfälle usw.) genau zu messen. Zum anderen müssen die von der Theorie vorhergesagten auftretenden Phänomene, wie z. B. die CP-Verletzung, auch verstanden werden. Die Methoden der Gittereichtheorie können unter anderem dabei helfen, bestehende Unsicherheiten in CKM-Matrixelementen durch nicht-perturbative Bestimmungen hadronischer Massen, Zerfallskonstanten usw. zu reduzieren. / The general aim of this thesis is to probe several methods to extract low-energy quantities (masses, decay constants, ...) more reliably in lattice gauge theory. We will investigate how to suppress contributions to correlation functions from the first excited meson state. We will show how to construct so-called improved meson interpolating fields, as they have only small contributions from the first excited meson state, from a basis of interpolating fields at the Schrödinger functional boundaries. The variational principle is applied to correlation matrices that are built up from boundary-to-boundary correlation functions. It will deliver information about the lowest-lying meson states in the considered channel. We also investigate the possibility to cancel the first excited state contribution by means of an alternative method. Moreover, an alternative way to extract the mass gap between the ground and the first excited state will be presented. Monte-Carlo simulations at several lattice spacings are performed in the ''quenched approximation''. Spectral properties of light-light and static-light pseudoscalar mesons are investigated. The first type is realised by two mass-degenerate quarks at about the strange quark mass, the second type by a light quark with the mass of the strange quark and an infinitely heavy b-quark. The light-light channel describes unphysically heavy pions and the static-light one is an approximation for the Bs-meson. The investigation of the latter case is particularly interesting since so-called B--factories, such as BaBar and Belle, are gathering physical information about masses, decay modes and CP--violating effects in the B--meson system.

Usando uma transformação de dualidade generalizada, considerações de simetria e supondo que as superfície críticas sejam contínuas, obtivemos o dia grama de fase para sistemas de spins Z (N) bidimensionais e sistemas com invariança de calibre Z (N) a quatro dimensões. Caracterizamos as diversas fases dos sistemas de spins pelo valor esperado das potências dos operadores de ordem e desordem. No sistema com invariança de calibre, por outro lado, estas fases caracterizadas pelo comportamento do valor esperado das potências das alças de Wilson e de \'t Hooft. Obtivemos para ambos os sistemas fases moles em que no caso de spins 2D (calibre 4D) todas as potências dos parâmetros de ordem e desordem ( todas as potências das alças de Wilson e \'t Hooft) são nulas (exibem decaimento com o perímetro da alça). Enquanto no sistema com invariança de calibre todas as combinações de decaimento (área ou perímetro) das alças de Wilson e \'t Hooft são permitidas, as relações de comutação no sistema de spins proíbe a existência de fases em que tanto o parâmetro de ordem como o de desordem são não nulos (exceto quando estes operadores comutam). Apresentamos por completeza as relações de dualidade para sistemas de calibre Z (N) com campos de Higgs a três dimensões. / Using a generalized duality transformation, symetry considerations and assuming that criticality is continuous in the system?s parameters, we obtain the phase diagram for two-dimensional Z (N) spins system?s and four-dimensional gauge Z (N) system\'s. For spins system we characterize the various phases by the expectation value of powers of the order and disorder operators. For gauge systems, on the other hand, the characterization is via decay law of powers of Wilson and \'t Hooft loops. We obtain soft phases for both systems, with the folowing, behaviour: for spins system all powers of order and disorder parameters vanish, whereas for gauge systems all powers of Wilson and \'t Hooft loops decay like the perimeter. Whereas all combinations of area and perimeter decay are allowed for Wilson\'s and \'t Hooft\'s loops, the Z (N) commutation relations for spin systems forbid the simultaneous non-vanishing of order and disorder parameters (except when these operators commute). For completeness we include the duality relations for three-dimensional gauge plus Higgs Z(N) systems.