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In the last few years, the Yang-Mills gradient flow was shown to be an attractive tool for non-perturbative studies of non-Abelian gauge theories. Here a simple extension of the flow to the quark fields in QCD is considered. As in the case of the puregauge gradient flow, the renormalizability of correlation functions involving local fields at positive flow times can be established using a representation through a local field theory in 4+1 dimensions. Applications of the extended flow in lattice QCD include non-perturbative renormalization and O(a) improvement as well as accurate calculations of the chiral condensate and of the pseudo-scalar decay constant in the chiral limit.
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Lüscher, M. Chiral symmetry and the Yang-Mills gradient flow. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 123 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2013)123
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