Interface Tension in {QCD} Matter

Jul, 1989
20 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 333 (1990) 100-119
  • Published: Mar 19, 1990
Report number:
  • HU-TFT-89-29

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
In hot QCD matter with a colour confining-non-confining first order phase transition at T c , the two phases can coexist at T c with a stable interface in between. We show how the structure of this interface and its tension α can be determined with lattice MonteCarlo methods. On an N t = 2 lattice with an 8 × 8 × 40 spatial size the result is α / T c 3 = 0.24 ± 0.06, the interface extends over more than 2 fm.
  • quantum chromodynamics: finite temperature
  • lattice field theory: critical phenomena
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • thermodynamics
  • energy: density
  • energy: surface
  • fermion
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo