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Some Relations for Quark Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-04-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We analytically study the relation between quark confinement and spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking in QCD. In terms of the Dirac eigenmodes, we derive some formulae for the Polyakov loop, its fluctuations, and the string tension from the Wilson loop. We also investigate the Polyakov loop in terms of the eigenmodes of the Wilson, the clover and the domain wall fermion kernels, respectively. For the confinement quantities, the low-lying Dirac/fermion eigenmodes are found to give negligible contribution, while they are essential for chiral symmetry breaking. These relations indicate no direct one-to-one correspondence between confinement and chiral symmetry breaking in QCD, which seems to be natural because confinement is realized independently of the quark mass.

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@article{arxiv.1611.08742,
  title  = {Some Relations for Quark Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QCD},
  author = {Hideo Suganuma and Takahiro M. Doi and Krzysztof Redlich and Chihiro Sasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08742},
  year   = {2017}
}