Published April 1, 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Chiral condensate in the deconfined phase of quenched gauge theories

  • 1. Jefferson Lab, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, MS 12H2, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)
  • 2. SCRI, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4130 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 (United States)
  • 4. American Physical Society, One Research Road, Ridge, New York 11961 (United States)

Description

We compute the low-lying spectrum of the overlap Dirac operator in the deconfined phase of finite-temperature quenched gauge theory. It suggests the existence of a chiral condensate which we confirm with a direct stochastic estimate. We show that the part of the spectrum responsible for the chiral condensate can be understood as arising from a dilute gas of instantons and anti-instantons. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
61
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 074504-074504.10
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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