Critical exponents of the chiral transition in strong coupling QCD

Nov, 1991
19 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 376 (1992) 199-217
  • Published: 1992
Report number:
  • HLRZ-91-78,
  • BI-TP-91-32

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We study the critical behaviour of the chiral phase transition of SU(3) lattice QCD with one species of staggered fermions in the strong coupling limit. We find a second-order phase transition which seems to be controlled by an effective action which is in the same universality class as three-dimensional O(2) spin models. In particular, we find for the exponent δ, 0.18 < 1/ δ < 0.25, in good agreement with the three-dimensional O(2) value, 1/ δ = 0.21.
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • lattice field theory
  • dimension: 4
  • critical phenomena: chiral
  • fermion: mass
  • mass: fermion
  • approximation: strong coupling
  • strong coupling: approximation
  • effective action
  • finite temperature