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Canonical fermion determinants in lattice QCD - Numerical evaluation and properties

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-03-13 v3

Abstract

We analyze canonical fermion determinants, i.e., fermion determinants projected to a fixed quark number q. The canonical determinants are computed using a dimensional reduction formula and are studied for pure SU(3) gauge configurations in a wide range of temperatures. It is demonstrated that the center sectors of the Polyakov loop very strongly manifest themselves in the behavior of the canonical determinants in the deconfined phase, and we discuss physical implications of this finding. Furthermore the distribution of the quark sectors is studied as a function of the temperature.

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@article{arxiv.0906.1088,
  title  = {Canonical fermion determinants in lattice QCD - Numerical evaluation and properties},
  author = {Erek Bilgici and Julia Danzer and Christof Gattringer and C. B. Lang and Ludovit Liptak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.1088},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Comments on the physical interpretation added. Final version to appear in Physics Letters B