Chiral phase transition in lattice QCD as a metal-insulator transition

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dc.creatorGarcia-Garcia, Antonio M.
dc.creatorOsborn, James C.
dc.date2006-11-17
dc.date2007-03-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:22:09Z
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dc.descriptionWe investigate the lattice QCD Dirac operator with staggered fermions at temperatures around the chiral phase transition. We present evidence of a metal-insulator transition in the low lying modes of the Dirac operator around the same temperature as the chiral phase transition. This strongly suggests the phenomenon of Anderson localization drives the QCD vacuum to the chirally symmetric phase in a way similar to a metal-insulator transition in a disordered conductor. We also discuss how Anderson localization affects the usual phenomenological treatment of phase transitions a la Ginzburg-Landau.
dc.description7 pages, 6 figures, references added, typos corrected, journal version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0611019
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0611019
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D75:034503,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.034503
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/175418
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Lattice
dc.subjectDisordered Systems and Neural Networks
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleChiral phase transition in lattice QCD as a metal-insulator transition
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