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The Mixed Non-Abelian Coulomb Gas in Two Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The statistical mechanics of a mixed gas of adjoint and fundamental representation charges interacting via 1+1-dimensional U(N) gauge fields is investigated. In the limit of large N we show that there is a first order deconfining phase transition for low densities of fundamental charges. As the density of fundamental charges becomes comparable to the adjoint charge density the phase transition becomes a third order one.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9706183,
  title  = {The Mixed Non-Abelian Coulomb Gas in Two Dimensions},
  author = {C. R. Gattringer and L. D. Paniak and G. W. Semenoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9706183},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Talk presented by G.W.S. at the Conference on Recent Developments in Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory (AIJIC 97), May 26-30 1997 at Seoul, South Korea. 25 pages LaTeX, 5 figures, uses psfig and mprocl.sty