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Analytical Relation between Quark Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QCD
- Source :
- PoS (Hadron 2013) 121
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- We study the relation between quark confinement and spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking directly in QCD. In lattice QCD formalism, we derive an analytical gauge-invariant relation between the Polyakov loop $\langle L_P \rangle$ and the Dirac eigenvalues $\lambda_n$, i.e., $\langle L_P \rangle \propto \sum_n \lambda_n^{N_t -1} \langle n|\hat U_4|n \rangle$, on a temporally odd-number lattice, where the temporal lattice size $N_t$ is odd. Here, $|n \rangle$ denotes the Dirac eigenmode, i.e., $\not D|n \rangle=i\lambda_n|n \rangle$, and $\hat U_4$ the temporal link-variable operator. We here use an ordinary square lattice with the normal periodic boundary condition for link-variables $U_\mu(s)$ in the temporal direction. Because of the factor $\lambda_n^{N_t -1}$ in the analytical relation, the contribution of low-lying Dirac modes to the Polyakov loop is negligibly small in both confined and deconfined phases, while the low-lying Dirac modes are essential for chiral symmetry breaking. Also, in lattice QCD simulations, we numerically confirm the analytical relation, non-zero finiteness of $\langle n|\hat U_4|n \rangle$ for each Dirac mode, and negligibly small contribution of low-lying Dirac modes to the Polyakov loop. Thus, we conclude that low-lying Dirac modes are not essential for confinement, which indicates no direct one-to-one correspondence between confinement and chiral symmetry breaking in QCD.<br />Comment: 5 pages, Proc. of Hadron 2013. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1311.3838, arXiv:1401.2414
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- PoS (Hadron 2013) 121
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1401.4434
- Document Type :
- Working Paper