Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the Department of Physics, Kyoto University
Presents a new general method to express a gauge-invariant quantity with respect to the Dirac eigenmodes
Offers a clear introduction to KogutSusskind formalism on the temporally odd-number lattice

Autorentext
Dr. Takahiro Doi is a special postdoctral researcher (SPDR) at RIKEN. His work is concerned with the theory of particle and nuclear physics. He received his Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. from the Department of Physics, Kyoto University in 2012, 2014 and 2017, respectively. He was awarded a research fellowship for young scientists for 2015 to 2017 by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), and his research was supported by the JSPS.

Inhalt
Basics of QCD and Lattice QCD.- Relation Between Connement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking.- Generalization to Chiral Fermion on the Lattice.- Summary and Outlook.