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We study the spectrum of the QCD Dirac operator near zero virtuality for $N_c =2$. According to a universality argument, it can be described by a random matrix theory with the chiral structure of QCD, but with $real$ matrix elements. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jacobus Verbaarschot

The magnetic Dirac operator describes the relativistic motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field. Although this operator got a lot of attention in physics many of its fundamental mathematical properties remain unexplored and this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Volker Branding , Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib

The distribution of the low-lying QCD Dirac spectrum is analyzed by means of partial quenched chiral perturbation theory. We identify an energy scale below which the valence quark mass dependence of the QCD partition function is given by…

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

Quasi-one-dimensional stochastic Dirac operators with an odd number of channels, time reversal symmetry but otherwise efficiently coupled randomness are shown to have one conducting channel and absolutely continuous spectrum of multiplicity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 Christian Sadel , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

In the $\varepsilon$-regime of chiral perturbation theory the spectral correlations of the Euclidean QCD Dirac operator close to the origin can be computed using random matrix theory. To incorporate the effect of temperature, a random…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Gernot Akemann , Tim R. Würfel

In the previous work, we have shown that the SU(2) chiral symmetry recovered above the critical temperature gives a strong constraint on the Dirac eigenvalue spectrum and this constraint is strong enough for a set of anomalous U(1) chiral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-12-06 Sinya Aoki , Hidenori Fukaya , Yusuke Taniguchi

I discuss the consequences of the constraints imposed on the Dirac spectrum by the restoration of chiral symmetry in the chiral limit of gauge theories with two light fermion flavors, with particular attention to the fate of the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-10-29 Matteo Giordano

A self-consistent construction of the overlap lattice Dirac operator coupled to chiral chemical potential is proposed. With the help of the constructed operator we compute electric current induced by a constant magnetic field (Chiral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-09-13 P. V. Buividovich

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

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

Using the overlap Dirac operator I show that, contrary to some expectations, even well above the critical temperature there is not necessarily a gap in the Dirac spectrum in pure SU(2) gauge theory. This happens when the Polyakov loop and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-04-14 Tamas G. Kovacs

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

In QCD chiral symmetry is explicitly broken by quark masses, the effect of which can be described reliably by chiral perturbation theory. Effects of explicit chiral symmetry breaking by the lattice regularisation of the Dirac operator,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-01-27 Nigel Cundy , Tony Kennedy , Andreas Schäfer

We present a detailed study of the interplay between chiral symmetry and spectral properties of the Dirac operator in lattice gauge theories. We consider, in the framework of the Schwinger model, the fixed point action and a fermion action…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Farchioni , I. Hip , C. B. Lang , M. Wohlgenannt

The spectral density of euclidean Dirac operator is investigated in partially quenched QCD with arbitrary quark masses. A representation of scalar and pseudoscalar correlators in terms of the spectral density is discussed. The spectral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Zyablyuk

We analyze the limit of the spectrum of a geometric Dirac-type operator under a collapse with bounded diameter and bounded sectional curvature. In the case of a smooth limit space B, we show that the limit of the spectrum is given by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott

Recently, sum rules were derived for the inverse eigenvalues of the Dirac operator. They were obtained in two different ways: i) starting from the low-energy effective Lagrangian and ii) starting from a random matrix theory with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. A. Halasz , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

The distribution and the correlations of the small eigenvalues of the Dirac operator are described by random matrix theory (RMT) up to the Thouless energy $E_c\propto 1/\sqrt{V}$, where $V$ is the physical volume. For somewhat larger…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 M. E. Berbenni-Bitsch , M. Göckeler , H. Hehl , S. Meyer , P. E. L. Rakow , A. Schäfer , T. Wettig

We establish a relationship between the zeros of the partition function in the complex mass plane and the spectral properties of the Dirac operator in QCD. This relation is derived within the context of chiral Random Matrix Theory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Jackson , C. B. Lang , M. Oswald , K. Splittorff

In this article, we consider the Dirac operator with constant magnetic field in $\mathbb R^2$. Its spectrum consists of eigenvalues of infinite multiplicities, known as the Landau-Dirac levels. Under compactly supported perturbations, we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vincent Bruneau , Pablo Miranda