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Universality and the QCD Anderson Transition

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2014-04-02 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the Anderson-type transition previously found in the spectrum of the QCD quark Dirac operator in the high temperature, quark-gluon plasma phase. Using finite size scaling for the unfolded level spacing distribution, we show that in the thermodynamic limit there is a genuine mobility edge, where the spectral statistics changes from Poisson to Wigner-Dyson statistics in a non-analytic way. We determine the correlation length critical exponent, ν\nu, and find that it is compatible with that of the unitary Anderson model.

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@article{arxiv.1312.1179,
  title  = {Universality and the QCD Anderson Transition},
  author = {Matteo Giordano and Tamas G. Kovacs and Ferenc Pittler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1179},
  year   = {2014}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures

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