Volume 336 - XIII Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (Confinement2018) - A: Vacuum structure and confinement
Conformal Perturbation description of Deconfinement.
M. Caselle,* N. Magnoli, A. Nada, M. Panero, M. Scanavino
*corresponding author
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Pre-published on: 2019 September 24
Published on: 2019 September 26
Abstract
Conformal perturbation theory is a powerful tool to describe the behavior of statistical-mechanics models and quantum field theories in the vicinity of a critical point. In the past few years, it has been extensively used to describe two-dimensional models and recently has also been extended to three-dimensional models. We show here that it can also be used to describe the behavior of four-dimensional lattice gauge theories in the vicinity of a critical point. As an example, we discuss the two-point correlator of Polyakov loops close to the thermal deconfinement transition of $\mathrm{SU}(2)$ Yang-Mills theory. We show that the short-distance behavior of this correlation function (and, thus, of the interquark potential) is described very well by conformal perturbation theory. This method is expected to work with a similarly high accuracy for all critical points in the same universality class, including, in particular, the critical endpoint in the QCD phase diagram.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.336.0042
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