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It is demonstrated, that chirality violating condensates in massless QCD arise entirely from zero mode solutions of Dirac equations in arbitrary gluon fields. The model is suggested, where the zero mode solutions are the ones for quarks,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 B. L. Ioffe

The effect of disorder on the Landau levels of massless Dirac fermions is examined for the cases with and without the fermion doubling. To tune the doubling a tight-binding model having a complex transfer integral is adopted to shift the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Kawarabayashi , T. Honda , H. Aoki , Y. Hatsugai

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

Quantum metric, a fundamental component of quantum geometry, has attracted broad interest in recent years due to its critical role in various quantum phenomena. Meanwhile, band topology, which serves as an important framework in condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xing-Lei Ma , K. T. Law

The near-zero modes of the Dirac operator are connected to spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in QCD (SBCS) via the Banks-Casher relation. At the same time the distribution of the near-zero modes is well described by the Random Matrix…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-10 M. Catillo , L. Ya. Glozman

We study the effect of topology for a random matrix model of QCD at nonzero imaginary chemical potential or nonzero temperature. Non-universal fluctuations of Dirac eigenvalues lead to normalization factors that contribute to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 C. Lehner , M. Ohtani , J. J. M. Verbaarschot , T. Wettig

We analyze the mass dependence of the chiral condensate for QCD at nonzero $\theta$-angle and find that in general the discontinuity of the chiral condensate is not on the support of the Dirac spectrum. To understand this behavior we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 M. Kieburg , J. J. M. Verbaarschot , T. Wettig

We prove that QCD in the epsilon-regime of chiral Perturbation Theory is equivalent to chiral Random Matrix Theory for zero and both non-zero real and imaginary chemical potential mu. To this aim we prove a theorem that relates integrals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Francesco Basile , Gernot Akemann

Lattice QCD with staggered quarks is augmented by the addition of a chiral 4-fermion interaction. The Dirac operator is now non-singular at $m_q=0$, decreasing the computing requirements for light quark simulations by at least an order of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-17 J. B. Kogut , D. K. Sinclair

A chiral random matrix model with complex eigenvalues is solved as an effective model for QCD with non-vanishing chemical potential. We derive new matrix model correlation functions which predict the local fluctuations of complex Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Akemann

We show that integrable structure of chiral random matrix models incorporating global symmetries of QCD Dirac operators (labeled by the Dyson index beta=1,2, and 4) leads to emergence of a connection relation between the spectral statistics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Akemann , E. Kanzieper

We investigate the spectrum of the staggered Dirac operator in 4d quenched U(1) lattice gauge theory and its relationship to random matrix theory. In the confined as well as in the Coulomb phase the nearest-neighbor spacing distribution of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 Bernd A. Berg , Harald Markum , Rainer Pullirsch , Tilo Wettig

Instanton liquid model being effective model of the QCD vacuum describes well the hadrons at low as well at intermediate energies. Thus, contact with perturbative QCD results is possible providing the unique information about the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. E. Dorokhov

We obtain a symmetric tridiagonal matrix representation of the Dirac-Coulomb operator in a suitable complete square integrable basis. Orthogonal polynomials techniques along with Darboux method are used to obtain the bound states energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-08-23 A. D. Alhaidari , H. Bahlouli , M. E. H. Ismail

The low-lying eigenmodes of the Dirac operator associated with typical gauge field configurations in QCD encode, among other low-energy properties, the physics behind the solution to the $U_A(1)$ problem (i.e. the origin of the $\eta'$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-17 Ivan Horvath , Nathan Isgur , John McCune , H. B. Thacker

We study a random matrix model for QCD at finite density via complex Langevin dynamics. This model has a phase transition to a phase with nonzero baryon density. We study the convergence of the algorithm as a function of the quark mass and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-04-05 Jacques Bloch , Jonas Glesaaen , Owe Philipsen , Jacobus Verbaarschot , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We show that, with an appropriate choice of a Dirac operator, there is a remnant of chiral anomalies in the reduced model in which there is no coordinate dependences of the gauge field. This result is obtained by exploring a topological…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-23 Hiroshi Suzuki

The relation between the baryon number in QCD at nonzero chemical potential and the spectral density of the baryon number Dirac operator, $\gamma_0(D+m)$, is examined. We show that extreme oscillations of the spectral density, caused by the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-05-30 J. R. Ipsen , K. Splittorff

We study baryon and diquark correlation functions in the framework of an instanton model for the QCD vacuum. The model naturally accomodates a light scalar diquark. As a consequence, the correlation functions for the nucleon and delta are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Schaefer , E. V. Shuryak , J. Verbaarschot

We calculate the index of the Dirac operator defined on the q-deformed fuzzy sphere. The index of the Dirac operator is related to its net chiral zero modes and thus to the trace of the chirality operator. We show that for the q-deformed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Harikumar , Amilcar R. Queiroz , P. Teotonio-Sobrinho