Partition function zeros in QCD

2001/11/01 by Michaela Oswald, Oswald, Michaela
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Random Matrices and Applications #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0111010

Contribution to STATISTICAL QCD, Bielefeld, 2001, 2 pages

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Abstract

We find a relationship between the partition function mass zeros and the spectral properties of the QCD Dirac operator in the context of chiral Random Matrix Theory. Introducing the concept of normal modes we see that certain features of the QCD partition function are universal.

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