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Dirac operator as a random matrix and the quenched limit of QCD with chemical potential

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The behavior of quenched QCD at nonzero chemical potential μ\mu has been a long-standing puzzle. An explicit solution is found using the random matrix approach to chiral symmetry breaking. At nonzero μ\mu the quenched QCD is not a simple n0n\to0 limit of a theory with nn quarks: a naive `replica trick' fails. A limit that leads to the quenched QCD is that of a theory with 2n2n quarks: nn quarks with original action and nn quarks with conjugate action.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9607060,
  title  = {Dirac operator as a random matrix and the quenched limit of QCD with chemical potential},
  author = {M. A. Stephanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9607060},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

3 pages, espcrc, 2 figures. Talk presented at LATTICE96(finite temperature)