Lattice QCD at Imaginary Chemical Potential in the Chiral Limit

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Auteurs principaux: Clarke, D. A., Goswami, Jishnu, Karsch, F., Lahiri, Anirban, Neumann, M., Schmidt, C.
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author Clarke, D. A.
Goswami, Jishnu
Karsch, F.
Lahiri, Anirban
Neumann, M.
Schmidt, C.
author_facet Clarke, D. A.
Goswami, Jishnu
Karsch, F.
Lahiri, Anirban
Neumann, M.
Schmidt, C.
contents We report on an ongoing study on the interplay between Roberge-Weiss (RW) and chiral transitions in simulations of (2+1)-flavor QCD with an imaginary chemical potential. We established that the RW endpoint belongs to the 3-$d$, $Z_2$ universality class when calculations are done with the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action in the RW plane with physical quark masses. We also have explored a range of quark masses corresponding to pion mass values, $m_π\geq40$~MeV and found that the transition is consistent with $Z_2$ universality class. We argue that observables that were usually used to determine the chiral phase transition temperature, e.g. the chiral condensate and chiral susceptibility, are sensitive to the RW transition and are energy-like observables for the $Z_2$ transition, contrary to the magnetic-like (order parameter) behavior at vanishing chemical potential. Moreover the calculations performed at $m_π\sim40$~MeV also put a stringent constraint for a critical pion mass at zero chemical potential for a possible first-order chiral phase transition.
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spellingShingle Lattice QCD at Imaginary Chemical Potential in the Chiral Limit
Clarke, D. A.
Goswami, Jishnu
Karsch, F.
Lahiri, Anirban
Neumann, M.
Schmidt, C.
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
We report on an ongoing study on the interplay between Roberge-Weiss (RW) and chiral transitions in simulations of (2+1)-flavor QCD with an imaginary chemical potential. We established that the RW endpoint belongs to the 3-$d$, $Z_2$ universality class when calculations are done with the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action in the RW plane with physical quark masses. We also have explored a range of quark masses corresponding to pion mass values, $m_π\geq40$~MeV and found that the transition is consistent with $Z_2$ universality class. We argue that observables that were usually used to determine the chiral phase transition temperature, e.g. the chiral condensate and chiral susceptibility, are sensitive to the RW transition and are energy-like observables for the $Z_2$ transition, contrary to the magnetic-like (order parameter) behavior at vanishing chemical potential. Moreover the calculations performed at $m_π\sim40$~MeV also put a stringent constraint for a critical pion mass at zero chemical potential for a possible first-order chiral phase transition.
title Lattice QCD at Imaginary Chemical Potential in the Chiral Limit
topic High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15621