2007/04/30 by L. Ravagli, J. J. M. Verbaarschot · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Theoretical and Computational Physics #hep-lat #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.76.054506
published as Phys.Rev.D76:054506,2007 · Latex, 23 pages and 5 figures; Added two references and corrected several typos
arxiv created 2007/06/06 · openalex publication_date 2007/09/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Using an integration formula recently derived by Conrey, Farmer, and Zirnbauer, we calculate the expectation value of the phase factor of the fermion determinant for the staggered lattice QCD action in one dimension. We show that the chemical potential can be absorbed into the quark masses; the theory is in the same chiral symmetry class as QCD in three dimensions at zero chemical potential. In the limit of a large number of colors and fixed number of lattice points, chiral symmetry is broken spontaneously, and our results are in agreement with expressions based on a chiral Lagrangian. In this limit, the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator are correlated according to random matrix theory for QCD in three dimensions. The discontinuity of the chiral condensate is due to an alternative to the Banks-Casher formula recently discovered for QCD in four dimensions at nonzero chemical potential. The effect of temperature on the average phase factor is discussed in a schematic random matrix model.