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We study the singular values of the Dirac operator in dense QCD-like theories at zero temperature. The Dirac singular values are real and nonnegative at any nonzero quark density. The scale of their spectrum is set by the diquark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-15 Takuya Kanazawa , Tilo Wettig , Naoki Yamamoto

We study the spectrum of the QCD Dirac operator by means of the valence quark mass dependence of the chiral condensate in partially quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory (pqChPT) in the supersymmetric formulation of Bernard and Golterman. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Osborn , D. Toublan , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

We study the spectrum of a periodic non-self-adjoint Dirac operator, and its dependence on a semiclassical parameter is also considered. Several bounds on the spectrum are obtained which provide sharp spectral enclosure estimates.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Jeffrey Oregero

The Banks--Casher relation links the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in QCD to the presence of a non-zero density of quark modes at the low end of the spectrum of the Dirac operator. Spectral observables like the number of modes in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-03-31 Leonardo Giusti , Martin Lüscher

The main issues of the spectral theory of Dirac operators are presented, namely: transformation operators, asymptotics of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, description of symmetric and self-adjoint operators in Hilbert space, expansion in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Tigran Harutyunyan , Yuri Ashrafyan

We investigate the eigenvalue spectrum of the staggered Dirac matrix in two-color QCD at nonzero temperature and at baryon density when the eigenvalues become complex. The quasi-zero modes and their role for chiral symmetry breaking and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Elmar Bittner , Maria-Paola Lombardo , Harald Markum , Rainer Pullirsch

We investigate the spectral properties of a random matrix model, which in the large $N$ limit, embodies the essentials of the QCD partition function at low energy. The exact spectral density and its pair correlation function are derived for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Jacobus Verbaarschot

Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking is a nonperturbative phenomenon that may be studied using QCD's gap equation. Model-independent results can be obtained with a nonperturbative and symmetry preserving truncation. The gap equation yields…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 C. D. Roberts

We compute the microscopic spectrum of the QCD Dirac operator in the presence of dynamical fermions in the framework of random-matrix theory for the chiral Gaussian unitary ensemble. We obtain results for the microscopic spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Wilke , T. Guhr , T. Wettig

The aim of this paper is to study the existence of eigenvalues in the gap of the essential spectrum of the one-dimensional Dirac operator in the presence of a bounded potential. We employ a generalized variational principle to prove…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Daniel Sánchez-Mendoza , Monika Winklmeier

The order parameter of the chiral phase transition is directly related to the infrared part of the spectrum of the QCD Dirac operator. This part of the spectrum follows from the low energy limit of QCD which is given by a partition function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. M. Verbaarschot

In this survey we gather recent results on Dirac operators coupled with $\delta$-shell interactions. We start by discussing recent advances regarding the question of self-adjointness for these operators. Afterward we switch to an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Fabio Pizzichillo

We construct chiral perturbation theory for the gradient flow of the microscopic Dirac eigenvalues and compute the density of and correlations between the microscopic eigenvalues at zero and non-zero flow time. The results show that the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-22 Alexander S. Christensen , K. Splittorff , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

The $\epsilon$-regime of dilaton chiral perturbation theory is introduced. We compute the dilaton mass, the chiral condensate and the topological susceptibility in the $\epsilon$-regime, as a function of the fermion mass. The microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-01 Taro V. Brown , Maarten Golterman , Svend Krøjer , Yigal Shamir , K. Splittorff

We investigate the effect of non-symmetric relatively bounded perturbations on the spectrum of self-adjoint operators. In particular, we establish stability theorems for one or infinitely many spectral gaps along with corresponding…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Jean-Claude Cuenin , Christiane Tretter

We carry out the spectral analysis of matrix valued perturbations of 3-dimensional Dirac operators with variable magnetic field of constant direction. Under suitable assumptions on the magnetic field and on the pertubations, we obtain a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Serge Richard , Rafael Tiedra de Aldecoa

In this lecture we argue that the fluctuations of Dirac eigenvalues on the finest scale, i.e. on the scale of the average level spacing do not depend on the underlying dynamics and can be obtained from a chiral random matrix theory with the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. M. Verbaarschot

We investigate the eigenvalue spectrum of the staggered Dirac matrix in two color QCD at finite chemical potential. The profiles of complex eigenvalues close to the origin are compared to a complex generalization of the chiral Gaussian…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Gernot Akemann , Elmar Bittner , Maria-Paola Lombardo , Harald Markum , Rainer Pullirsch

Using Weitzenb\"ock techniques on any compact Riemannian spin manifold we derive inequalities that involve a real parameter and join the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator with curvature terms. The discussion of these inequalities yields…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-10 K. -D. Kirchberg

We review some results on the spectral theory of Schr{\"o}dinger and Dirac operators. We focus on two aspects: the existence of embbedded eigen-values in the essential spectrum and the limiting absorption principle. They both are important…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 Thierry Jecko