Revisiting the deconfinement phase transition in SU(4) Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
In order to deepen our understanding of the nature of the deconfinement phase transition for various gauge groups, we investigate SU(4) Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions. We find that the transition is weakly first order. We perform extensive Monte Carlo simulations on lattices with temporal extent N_t = 3, 4 and 5, and spatial sizes up to N_s = 20 N_t. We observe coexistence of confined and deconfined phases at the critical temperature, and finite-size scaling shows consistency with first order exponents. The continuum extrapolation of the latent heat yields L_h/T_c^3=0.188(17).
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@article{arxiv.0712.1216,
title = {Revisiting the deconfinement phase transition in SU(4) Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions},
author = {Kieran Holland and Michele Pepe and Uwe-Jens Wiese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1216},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
29 pages, 15 figures; v2: version published in JHEP, analysis section expanded