We determine the phase diagram and chiral condensate for lattice QCD with two flavors of twisted-mass fermions in the presence of nondegenerate up and down quarks, discretization errors and a nonzero value of ΘQCD. Although such a theory has a complex action and cannot, at present, be simulated, the results are needed to understand how to tune to maximal twist in the presence of electromagnetism, a topic discussed in a companion paper. We find that, in general, the only phase structure is a first-order transition of finite length. Pion masses are nonvanishing throughout the phase plane except at the endpoints of the first-order line. Only for extremal values of the twist angle and ΘQCD (ω=0 or π/2 and ΘQCD=0 or π) are there second-order transitions.
@article{arxiv.1507.03653,
title = {Phase structure with nonzero $\Theta_{\rm QCD}$ and twisted mass fermions},
author = {Derek P. Horkel and Stephen R. Sharpe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03653},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 6 figures Introduction expanded, results unchanged, consistent with published version