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The QCD phase transition is studied on $16^3$ and $32^3 \times 4$ lattices both with and without quark loops. We introduce a new zero-flavor or quenched species of quark $\zeta$ and study the resulting chiral condensate, $\azbz$ as a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Norman Christ

In the contact interaction model, the quark propagator has only one solution, chiral symmetry breaking solution, at vanish temperature and density. Inspire by Y. Jiang and Z.-F. Cui, we introduce 2+1 flavors quark condensates feedback on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-15 Shu-Sheng Xu

The effect that the current quark mass $M_0$ may result in nonzero-ness of chiral condensates is systematically reexamined and analyzed in a two-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model simulating Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at temperature $T$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 Bang-Rong Zhou

QCD with 2 massless colour-sextet quarks is studied as a model of Walking Technicolor. We simulate lattice QCD with 2 light color-sextet staggered quarks at finite temperature, and use the dependence of the coupling at the chiral transition…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-10 D. K. Sinclair , J. B. Kogut

In order to quantify the universal properties of the chiral phase transition in (2+1)-flavor QCD, we make use of an improved, renormalized order parameter for chiral symmetry breaking which is obtained as a suitable difference of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-11-28 Sabarnya Mitra , Frithjof Karsch , Sipaz Sharma

A general research on chiral symmetry restoring phase transitions at zero temperature and finite chemical potentials under electrical neutrality condition has been conducted in a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model to describe two-flavor normal quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-19 Xiao-Ming Wang , Bang-Rong Zhou

Small changes in an external parameter can often lead to dramatic qualitative changes in the lowest energy quantum mechanical ground state of a correlated electron system. In anisotropic crystals, such as the high temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Subir Sachdev

We calculate the transition temperature in 2 and 3-flavor QCD using improved gauge and staggered fermion actions on lattices with temporal extent Nt=4. We find Tc=173(8)MeV and 154(8)MeV for nf=2 and 3, respectively. In the case of 3-flavor…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Karsch , E. Laermann , A. Peikert , Ch. Schmidt , S. Stickan

When the quark masses are lighter than those in QCD, the standard lore is that a chiral transition of first order must emerge for three, light flavors. Recently, however, numerical simulations on the lattice suggest that the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-15 Francesco Giacosa , Győző Kovács , Péter Kovács , Robert D. Pisarski , Fabian Rennecke

Recent results for the QCD phase structure at finite temperature and light-quark chemical potential are summarized, where the cases of N_f = 2 + 1 and N_f = 2+1+1 dynamical quark flavors are considered. Order parameters for the chiral and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Christian A. Welzbacher , Christian S. Fischer , Jan Luecker

We present results obtained in QCD with two flavors of non-perturbatively improved Wilson fermions at finite temperature on $16^3 \times 8$ and $24^3 \times 10$ lattices. We determine the transition temperature in the range of quark masses…

Quantum criticality is the intriguing possibility offered by the laws of quantum mechanics when the wave function of a many-particle physical system is forced to evolve continuously between two distinct, competing ground states. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicolas Roch , Serge Florens , Vincent Bouchiat , Wolfgang Wernsdorfer , Franck Balestro

We present here results on the determination of the critical temperature in the chiral limit for (2+1)-flavor QCD. We propose two novel estimators of the chiral critical temperature where quark mass dependence is strongly suppressed…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-01-28 H. -T. Ding , P. Hegde , F. Karsch , A. Lahiri , S. -T. Li , S. Mukherjee , P. Petreczky

We report the first investigation of the QCD transition temperature, T_c, for two flavours of staggered quarks with unequal masses at lattice spacings of 1/4T. On changing the u/d quark mass ratio in such a way that m(pi_0)^2/m(pi_+)^2…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Rajiv V. Gavai , Sourendu Gupta

We present results from a comprehensive study of the location of the chiral critical surface, which separates regions of first-order chiral transitions from analytic crossovers, in the bare parameter space of lattice QCD with unimproved…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-22 Francesca Cuteri , Owe Philipsen , Alessandro Sciarra

The chiral critical surface is a surface of second order phase transitions bounding the region of first order chiral phase transitions for small quark masses in the {m_{u,d}, m_s,\mu} parameter space. The potential critical endpoint of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Owe Philipsen

We study a Yukawa theory with spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and with a large number N of fermions near the finite temperature phase transition. Critical properties in such a system can be described by the mean field theory very close…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-25 J. B. Kogut , M. A. Stephanov , C. G. Strouthos

This paper offers a comprehensive overview of recent technological advancements concerning the critical point of chiral phase transition, with a particular focus on Effective Field. Theories in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). It delves into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-09 Jingxu Wu , Congyu Li , Yan Wang , Tuerdi Wumaier

When the number of massless fermions exceeds a critical value $N_f^*$, QCD enters the conformal window and becomes chirally symmetric already in the vacuum. Determining $N_f^*$ from lattice simulations is challenging, since calculations are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-23 Jan Philipp Klinger , Reinhold Kaiser , Owe Philipsen , Jonas Schaible

The critical temperature and the nature of the QCD finite temperature phase transition are determined for Nf=2 dynamical flavors of nonperturbatively improved Wilson fermions. The calculations are performed on large lattices with temporal…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 V. G. Bornyakov , R. Horsley , S. M. Morozov , Y. Nakamura , M. I. Polikarpov , P. E. L. Rakow , G. Schierholz , T. Suzuki