The critical exponents of the deconfinement transition in SU(2) lattice gauge theory

Aug, 1986
22 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 280 (1987) 577-598,
  • Nucl.Phys.B 280 (1987) 577-598
  • Published: Oct 25, 2002
    and
  • Published: 1987
DOI:
Report number:
  • FSU-SCRI-59

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Abstract: (Elsevier B.V.)
The behaviour of the deconfinement order parameter, the susceptibility, the correlation length and the energy density of the SU(2) Yang-Mills system is studied in the neighbourhood of the deconfinement transition on large lattices (183 × 3,4,5 and 163 × 4,5,6). We check the critical exponents both below and above the transition by fits including corrections-to-scaling terms and find very good agreement with the universality predictions from the Z2 spin system. With the predicted exponent β as input, precise values for the critical temperature are found; they are confirmed by the energy density results.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(2)
  • FIELD THEORY: FINITE TEMPERATURE
  • LATTICE FIELD THEORY: CRITICAL PHENOMENA
  • CORRELATION: LENGTH
  • ENERGY: DENSITY
  • SCALING
  • UNIVERSALITY
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: POLYAKOV LOOP
  • STATISTICAL MECHANICS: ISING
  • NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS: MONTE CARLO