Revisiting the deconfinement phase transition in SU(4) Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions

2007/12/31 by Kieran Holland, Michele Pepe, Uwe-Jens Wiese · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/041

published as JHEP0802:041,2008 · 29 pages, 15 figures; v2: version published in JHEP, analysis section expanded

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Abstract

In order to deepen our understanding of the nature of the deconfinement phase transition for various gauge groups, we investigate SU(4) Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions. We find that the transition is weakly first order. We perform extensive Monte Carlo simulations on lattices with temporal extent N_t = 3, 4 and 5, and spatial sizes up to N_s = 20 N_t. We observe coexistence of confined and deconfined phases at the critical temperature, and finite-size scaling shows consistency with first order exponents. The continuum extrapolation of the latent heat yields L_h/T_c³=0.188(17).

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