Abstract
Quantum chromodynamics with two zero mass flavors is expected to exhibit a phase transition with O(4) critical behavior. Fixing the universality class is important for phenomenology and for facilitating the extrapolation of simulation data to physical quark mass values. Other groups have reported results from lattice QCD simulations with dynamical staggered quarks at Nt=4, which suggest a departure from the expected critical behavior. We have pushed simulations to the largest volumes and smallest quark mass to date. Strong discrepancies in critical exponents and the scaling equation of state persist.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 054503 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 1 2000 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Mathematical Physics
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Bernard, C., DeTar, C., Gottlieb, S., Heller, U. M., Hetrick, J., Rummukainen, K., ... Toussaint, W. D. (2000). Critical behavior in Nt=4 staggered fermion thermodynamics. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 61(5), 1-6. [054503].