Critical behavior in Nt=4 staggered fermion thermodynamics

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Science
Department Physics
Creator DeTar, Carleton
Other Author Bernard, Claude; Gottlieb, Steven; Heller, Urs M.; Hetrick, James; Rummukainen, Kari; Sugar, Robert L.; Toussaint, Doug
Title Critical behavior in Nt=4 staggered fermion thermodynamics
Date 2000-01
Description Quantum chromodynamics with two zero mass flavors is expected to exhibit a phase transition with O(4) critical behavior. Fixing the universality class is important for phenomenology and for facilitating the extrapolation of simulation data to physical quark mass values. Other groups have reported results from lattice QCD simulations with dynamical staggered quarks at Nt=4, which suggest a departure from the expected critical behavior. We have pushed simulations to the largest volumes and smallest quark mass to date. Strong discrepancies in critical exponents and the scaling equation of state persist.
Type Text
Publisher American Physical Society
Journal Title Physical Review D
Volume 61
Issue 5
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.61.054503
citatation_issn 0556-2821
Subject Staggered fermions; Phase transitions; Quark-gluon plasma; Chiral symmetry
Subject LCSH Quantum chromodynamics; Lattice gauge theories; Phase transformations (Statistical physics); Quark-gluon interactions; Particles (Nuclear physics); Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Chirality
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Bernard, C., DeTar, C., Gottlieb, S., Heller, U. M., Hetrick, J., Rummukainen, K., Sugar, R. L., & Toussaint, D. (2000). Critical behavior in Nt=4 staggered fermion thermodynamics. Physical Review D, 61(5), 054503.
Rights Management (c) American Physical Society http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.61.054503
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