Massless Mode and Positivity Violation in Hot QCD

We calculate the quark self-energy at one-loop level at high temperature, taking into account contributions from both the (chromo)electric scale gT and the (chromo)magnetic scale g2T. While reproducing standard massive excitations due to the electric scale, we uncover a novel massless excitation ascribable to the magnetic scale. The residue of this massless excitation is nonpositive at all temperatures, which consequently gives rise to positivity violation in the quark spectral functions. This demonstrates the profound impact of confinement effects on thermal quark collective excitations, which manifest genuine long-range correlations in the system.

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5 pages, 2 figures; v3 - published version

12.38.Aw
11.10.Wx
12.38.Mh
25.75.Nq
excited state: massless
quark: spectral representation
excited state: collective
excited state: massive
quark: propagator
correlation: long-range

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