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Chiral Disorder and QCD Phase Transitions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

If QCD is to undergo a second order phase transition, the light quark return probability is universal for large times at the critical point. We show that this behavior is distinct from the one expected at the mobility edge of a metal-insulator transition or a percolation transition in d4\leq 4. Our results are accessible to current lattice QCD simulations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9807550,
  title  = {Chiral Disorder and QCD Phase Transitions},
  author = {Romuald A. Janik and Maciej A. Nowak and Gabor Papp and Ismail Zahed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9807550},
  year   = {2009}
}

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