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We present preliminary results from our calculation of the low energy constants (LECs) of the chiral effective theory for 3, 4 and 5 color QCD with $N_f=2$ dynamical fermion flavors. We simulate with clover fermions over a range of lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-22 Evan Wickenden , Thomas DeGrand

We investigate the scaling behavior of the critical temperature of anisotropic QED in 2+1 dimensions with respect to a variation of the number of fermions N_f. To this end we determine the order parameter of the chiral transition of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-12 Jacqueline A. Bonnet , Christian S. Fischer

Our recent works revisit the proof of chiral symmetry breaking in the confining phase of four-dimensional QCD-like theories, i.e. $SU(N_c)$ gauge theories with $N_f$ flavors of vectorlike quarks in the fundamental representation. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-05 Luca Ciambriello , Roberto Contino , Ling-Xiao Xu

The confinement-deconfinement phase transition is explored by lattice numerical simulations in non-compact (2+1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with massive fermions at finite temperature. The existence of two phases, one with and the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-12-18 Roberto Fiore , Pietro Giudice , Alessandro Papa

We combine the recently introduced Non-Abelian Quasi-Particle Model (NAQPM) for gluons with an ideal Fermi gas of three quark species with the aim to describe the equation of state (energy density vs. temperature) of $2+1$ - flavour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-09 Eleftherios P. Politis , Antonis Tsapalis , Fotios K. Diakonos

The nature of the thermal phase transition of two flavor QCD in the chiral limit has an important implication for the QCD phase diagram. We carry out lattice QCD simulations in an attempt to address this problem. Simulations are conducted…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-07-04 Liang-Kai Wu , Fa-Ling Zhang

A study for checking validity of the auxiliary field method (AFM) is made in quantum mechanical four-fermi models which act as a prototype of models for chiral symmetry breaking in Quantum Electrodynamics. It has been shown that AFM,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Taro Kashiwa , Tomohiko Sakaguchi

We present the first results of numerical simulations of a 2+1 dimensional fermion field theory based on a recent proposal for a model of graphene, consisting of N_f four-component Dirac fermions moving in the plane and interacting via an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-12-18 Simon Hands , Costas Strouthos

QCD with gauge group $SU(N_c)$ flows to an interacting conformal fixed point in three spacetime dimensions when the number of four-component Dirac fermions $N_f \gg N_c$. We study the stability of this fixed point via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-28 Hart Goldman , Michael Mulligan

We consider QED on a two-dimensional Euclidean torus with $f$ flavors of massless fermions and flavor-dependent chemical potentials. The dependence of the partition function on the chemical potentials is reduced to a $(2f-2)$-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-04 Robert Lohmayer , Rajamani Narayanan

We calculate the equation of state in 2+1 flavor QCD at finite temperature with physical strange quark mass and almost physical light quark masses using lattices with temporal extent $N_{\tau}=8$. Calculations have been performed with two…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-06-23 Christian Schmidt

We employ non-perturbative flow equations to compute the equation of state for two flavor QCD within an effective quark meson model. Our treatment covers both the chiral perturbation theory domain of validity and the domain of validity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Berges

We design a lattice model of a "mixed" U(1) gauge field coupled to fermions with a flavor chemical potential and solve it with large-scale determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations, For zero flavor chemical potential, the model realizes…

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We study supersymmetry breaking perturbations of the simplest dual pair of 2+1-dimensional N = 2 supersymmetric field theories -- the free chiral multiplet and N = 2 super-QED with a single flavor. We find dual descriptions of a phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-11 Shamit Kachru , Michael Mulligan , Gonzalo Torroba , Huajia Wang

The catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking in the massless weakly coupled QED in a magnetic field is studied. It is shown that the effect is due to the dimensional reduction $D\to D-2$ in the dynamics of fermion pairing in a magnetic field.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor A. Shovkovy

We argue that the order of the chiral transition for N_f=2 is a sensitive probe of the QCD vacuum, in particular of the mechanism of color confinement. A strategy is developed to investigate the order of the transition by use of finite size…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 M. D'Elia , A. Di Giacomo , C. Pica

We discuss the existence of a conformal phase in SU(N) gauge theories in four dimensions. In this lattice study we explore the model in the bare parameter space, varying the lattice coupling and bare mass. Simulations are carried out with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-26 A. Deuzeman , M. P. Lombardo , E. Pallante

We investigate the phase structure of 3-flavor QCD in the presence of finite quark chemical potential by using Wilson-Clover fermions. To deal with the complex action with finite density, we adopt the phase reweighting method. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-10-28 Shinji Takeda , Xiao-Yong Jin , Yoshinobu Kuramashi , Yoshifumi Nakamura , Akira Ukawa

We analyze the finite temperature chiral restoration transition of the $(D=d+1)$-dimensional Gross-Neveu model for the case of a large number of flavors and fixed total fermion number. This leads to the study of the model with a nonzero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. S. Nogueira , M. B. Silva Neto , N. F. Svaiter

In this paper, we explore (2+1)D quantum electrodynamics (QED) at finite density on a quantum computer, including two fermion flavors. Our method employs an efficient gauge-invariant ansatz together with a quantum circuit structure that…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-26 Emil Otis Rosanowski , Arianna Crippa , Lena Funcke , Paulo Vitor Itaborai , Karl Jansen , Simran Singh