QCD quark condensate in external magnetic fields

Jun, 2012
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 86 (2012) 071502
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a comprehensive analysis of the light condensates in QCD with 1+1+1 sea quark flavors (with mass-degenerate light quarks of different electric charges) at zero and nonzero temperatures of up to 190 MeV and external magnetic fields B<1 GeV^2/e. We employ stout smeared staggered fermions with physical quark masses and extrapolate the results to the continuum limit. At low temperatures we confirm the magnetic catalysis scenario predicted by many model calculations, while around the crossover the condensate develops a complex dependence on the external magnetic field, resulting in a decrease of the transition temperature.
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  • slight changes in the text, version accepted for publication in PRD. 5 pages, 5 figures
  • 12.38.Gc
  • 11.30.Rd
  • 25.75.Nq
  • 12.38.Mh
  • magnetic field: external field
  • quark: condensation
  • temperature: transition
  • temperature: low
  • quark: flavor
  • quark: mass
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