Published August 13, 1984
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Journal article
Finite-temperature phase transitions in SU(3) lattice gauge theory with dynamical, light fermions
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801
Description
SU(3) lattice gauge theory with four light quark species is studied at finite temperature by microcanonical computer simulation techniques. An abrupt transition is found separating the hadronic-matter and the quark-gluon--plasma phases. Measurements of the critical temperature, latent heat, , Wilson line, and Wilson-line correlation function are presented and are compared to earlier calculations which ignored fermion vacuum polarization
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Volume
- 53
- Journal Issue
- 7
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 644-647
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 16025167
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; EXPECTATION VALUE; LATTICE FIELD THEORY; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; QUARK MATTER; SU-3 GROUPS
- Descriptors DEC
- CONSTRUCTIVE FIELD THEORY; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; LIE GROUPS; MATTER; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SIMULATION; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS