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Localised Dirac eigenmodes, chiral symmetry breaking, and Goldstone's theorem at finite temperature

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-09-08 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

I show that a finite density of near-zero localised Dirac modes in the chirally broken phase of a gauge theory can lead to the disappearance of the massless excitations predicted by the Goldstone theorem at finite temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2009.00486,
  title  = {Localised Dirac eigenmodes, chiral symmetry breaking, and Goldstone's theorem at finite temperature},
  author = {Matteo Giordano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00486},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Revised version: title changed; error corrected in Eq. 11, conclusions unchanged; discussion improved, comments added about symmetry breaking and relation with Goldstone's theorem; published version, 13 pages