The one-flavor quark condensate and related problems
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I describe a recent calculation (by me, Hoffmann, Liu, and Schaefer) of the chiral condensate in one-flavor QCD using numerical simulations with overlap fermions. The condensate is extracted by fitting the distribution of low lying eigenmodes of the Dirac operator in sectors of fixed topological charge to the predictions of Random Matrix Theory. Our results are in excellent agreement with estimates from the orientifold large-N expansion. Much interesting physics surrounds this calculation, which I will highlight.
11 pages, 2 figures: XXIVth International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory plenary talk
11 pages, 2 figures: XXIVth International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory plenary talk