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We discuss the sign problem in QCD at nonzero chemical potential and its relation with chiral symmetry breaking and the spectrum of the Dirac operator using the framework of chiral random matrix theory. We show that the Banks-Casher formula…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-06 K. Splittorff , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

Random Matrix Theory (RMT) is a powerful statistical tool to model spectral fluctuations. This approach has also found fruitful application in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Importantly, RMT provides very efficient means to separate…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-25 T. Guhr , J. -Z. Ma , S. Meyer , T. Wilke

In the last few years several new Random Matrix Models have been proposed and studied. They have found application in various different contexts, ranging from the physics of mesoscopic systems to the chiral transition in lattice gauge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Caselle

Previous work has shown that mesonic fields in chiral Lagrangians can be systematically connected to quark-level operators in QCD sum rules through chiral-symmetry constrained and energy-independent scale factor matrices. This framework…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 J. Ho , Amir H. Fariborz , T. G. Steele

We introduce three universality classes of chiral random matrix ensembles with a nonzero chemical potential and real, complex or quaternion real matrix elements. In the thermodynamic limit we find that the distribution of the eigenvalues in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. Halasz , J. C. Osborn , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

We use a random matrix model to study chiral symmetry breaking in QCD at finite chemical potential $\mu$. We solve the model and compute the eigenvalue density of the Dirac matrix on a complex plane. A naive ``replica trick'' fails for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 M. A. Stephanov

The zero momentum sectors in effective theories of three dimensional QCD coupled to pseudoreal (two colors) and real (adjoint) quarks in a classically parity-invariant manner have alternative descriptions in terms of orthogonal and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 T. Nagao , S. M. Nishigaki

We use the idea of a Wigner surmise to compute approximate distributions of the first eigenvalue in chiral Random Matrix Theory, for both real and complex eigenvalues. Testing against known results for zero and maximal non-Hermiticity in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-16 G. Akemann , E. Bittner , M. J. Phillips , L. Shifrin

We show that the spectrum of the Dirac operator in complex Langevin simulations of QCD at non-zero chemical potential must behave in a way which is radically different from the one in simulations with ordinary non-complexified gauge fields:…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-03-05 K. Splittorff

We briefly review the overlap formalism for chiral gauge theories, the overlap Dirac operator for massless fermions and its connection to domain wall fermions. We describe properties of the overlap Dirac operator, and methods to implement…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert G. Edwards , Urs M. Heller , Joe Kiskis , Rajamani Narayanan

We compare the low-lying spectrum of the staggered Dirac operator in the confining phase of compact U(1) gauge theory on the lattice to predictions of chiral random matrix theory. The small eigenvalues contribute to the chiral condensate…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 B. A. Berg , H. Markum , R. Pullirsch , T. Wettig

We analyze the eigenvalue statistics of the staggered Dirac operator above $T_{c}$ in QCD with 2+1 flavors of dynamical quarks. We use physical quark masses in our simulations. We compare the eigenvalue statistics from several parts of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-16 Tamás G. Kovács , Ferenc Pittler

We study the lattice artefacts of the Wilson Dirac operator for QCD with two colors and fermions in the fundamental representation from the viewpoint of chiral perturbation theory. These effects are studied with the help of the following…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-08-26 Mario Kieburg , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We prove the universality of correlation functions of chiral unitary and unitary ensembles of random matrices in the microscopic limit. The essence of the proof consists in reducing the three-term recursion relation for the relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-31 G. Akemann , P. H. Damgaard , U. Magnea , S. Nishigaki

We present a quantitative analysis of the microscopic Dirac spectrum which is complex in the presence of a non-vanishing quark chemical potential. Data from quenched SU(3) lattice simulations for different volumes V and small values of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Akemann , T. Wettig

In lattice QCD it is possible, in principle, to determine the parameters in the effective chiral lagrangian (including weak interaction couplings) by performing numerical simulations in the $\epsilon$--regime, i.e. at quark masses where the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-19 L. Giusti , C. Hoelbling , M. Lüscher , H. Wittig

We use the law of addition in random matrix theory to analyze the spectral distributions of a variety of chiral random matrix models as inspired from QCD whether through symmetries or models. In terms of the Blue's functions recently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Maciej A. Nowak , Gábor Papp , Ismail Zahed

We discuss the eigenvalue distribution of the overlap Dirac operator in quenched QCD on lattices of size 8^{4}, 10^{4} and 12^{4} at \beta = 5.85 and \beta = 6. We distinguish the topological sectors and study the distributions of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Bietenholz , K. Jansen , S. Shcheredin

Large ensembles of complete spectra of the Euclidean Dirac operator for staggered fermions are calculated for SU(2) lattice gauge theory. The accumulation of eigenvalues near zero is analyzed as a signal of chiral symmetry breaking and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 M. E. Berbenni-Bitsch , S. Meyer , A. Schäfer , J. J. M. Verbaarschot , T. Wettig

In this paper we study a random matrix model with the chiral and flavor structure of the QCD Dirac operator and a temperature dependence given by the lowest Matsubara frequency. Using the supersymmetric method for random matrix theory, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. D. Jackson , M. K. Şener , J. J. M. Verbaarschot