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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

For QCD at non-zero chemical potential $\mu$, the Dirac eigenvalues are scattered in the complex plane. We define a notion of ordering for individual eigenvalues in this case and derive the distributions of individual eigenvalues from…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-01-14 Gernot Akemann , Jacques Bloch , Leonid Shifrin , Tilo Wettig

In the epsilon-regime of QCD the main features of the spectrum of the low-lying eigenvalues of the (euclidean) Dirac operator are expected to be described by a certain universality class of random matrix models. In particular, the latter…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Leonardo Giusti , Martin Lüscher , Peter Weisz , Hartmut Wittig

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

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Elmar Bittner , Maria-Paola Lombardo , Harald Markum , Rainer Pullirsch

The application of Random Matrix Theory to the Dirac operator of QCD yields predictions for the probability distributions of the lowest eigenvalues. We measured Dirac operator spectra using massless overlap fermions in quenched QCD at…

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

We have calculated complete spectra of the staggered Dirac operator on the lattice in quenched SU(3) gauge theory for \beta = 5.4 and various lattice sizes. The microscopic spectral density, the distribution of the smallest eigenvalue, and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Göckeler , H. Hehl , P. E. L. Rakow , A. Schäfer , T. Wettig

The spectrum of the overlap Dirac operator in the deconfined phase of quenched gauge theory is known to have three parts: exact zeros arising from topology, small nonzero eigenvalues that result in a non-zero chiral condensate, and the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Joe Kiskis , Rajamani Narayanan

An investigation of classical chaos and quantum chaos in gauge fields and fermion fields, respectively, is presented for (quantum) electrodynamics. We analyze the leading Lyapunov exponents of U(1) gauge field configurations on a $12^3$…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harald Markum , Rainer Pullirsch

We have computed ensembles of complete spectra of the staggered Dirac operator using four-dimensional SU(2) gauge fields, both in the quenched approximation and with dynamical fermions. To identify universal features in the Dirac spectrum,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Berbenni-Bitsch , M. Göckeler , S. Meyer , A. Schäfer , T. Wettig

We consider $4d$ compact lattice QED in the quenched approximation. First, we briefly summarize the spectrum of the staggered Dirac operator and its connection with random matrix theory. Afterwards we present results for the low-lying…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Bernd A. Berg , Urs M. Heller , Harald Markum , Rainer Pullirsch , Wolfgang Sakuler

The spectrum of the Dirac operator near zero virtuality obtained in lattice gauge simulations is known to be universally described by chiral random matrix theory. We address the question of the maximum energy for which this universality…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Berbenni-Bitsch , M. Göckeler , T. Guhr , A. D. Jackson , J. -Z. Ma , S. Meyer , A. Schäfer , H. A. Weidenmüller , T. Wettig , T. Wilke

We compare analytic predictions of non-Hermitian chiral random matrix theory with the complex Dirac operator eigenvalue spectrum of two-colour lattice gauge theory with dynamical fermions at nonzero chemical potential. The Dirac eigenvalues…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Akemann , E. Bittner

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

Measurements of the lowest-lying eigenvalues of the staggered fermion Dirac operator are made on ensembles of equilibrium gauge field configurations in quenched SU(3) lattice gauge theory. The results are compared with exact analytical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 P. H. Damgaard , U. M. Heller , A. Krasnitz

We provide first evidence that Matrix Models describe the low lying complex Dirac eigenvalues in a theory with dynamical fermions at non-zero density. Lattice data for gauge group SU(2) with staggered fermions are compared to detailed…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Gernot Akemann , Elmar Bittner

Recently, a non-Hermitian chiral random matrix model was proposed to describe the eigenvalues of the QCD Dirac operator at nonzero chemical potential. This matrix model can be constructed from QCD by mapping it to an equivalent matrix model…

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

Motivated by the statistical fluctuation of Dirac spectrum of QCD-like theories subjected to (pseudo)reality-violating perturbations and in the epsilon-regime, we compute the smallest eigenvalue distribution and the level spacing…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-12-18 Shinsuke M. Nishigaki

In this lecture we give a brief review of chiral Random Matrix Theory (chRMT) and its applications to QCD at nonzero chemical potential. We present both analytical arguments involving chiral perturbation theory and numerical evidence from…

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

We analyze the smallest Dirac eigenvalues by formulating an effective theory for the QCD Dirac spectrum. We find that in a domain where the kinetic term of the effective theory can be ignored, the Dirac eigenvalues are distributed according…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 D. Toublan , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

Random Matrix Theory has been a unifying approach in physics and mathematics.In these lectures we discuss applications of Random Matrix Theory to QCD and emphasize underlying integrable structures. In the first lecture we give an overview…

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