When is the deconfinement phase transition universal?
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2017-08-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Pure Yang-Mills theory has a finite-temperature phase transition, separating the confined and deconfined bulk phases. Svetitsky and Yaffe conjectured that if this phase transition is of second order, it belongs to the universality class of transitions for particular scalar field theories in one lower dimension. We examine Yang-Mills theory with the symplectic gauge groups Sp(N). We find new evidence supporting the Svetitsky-Yaffe conjecture and make our own conjecture as to which gauge theories have a universal second order deconfinement phase transition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0309008,
title = {When is the deconfinement phase transition universal?},
author = {K. Holland and M. Pepe and U. -J. Wiese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0309008},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures; Contribution to Confinement 2003, Tokyo, Japan, July 21-24, 2003