Finite-Temperature Phase Transitions in Lattice QCD for a General Number of Flavors
- 18 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 60 (3) , 178-181
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.60.178
Abstract
Finite-temperature transitions in lattice QCD are studied for various numbers of flavors in the range on an ×4 lattice by the Langevin simulation technique. It is found that the weakening of the transition at intermediate quark mass is a general feature for but that the smoothing out of the transition observed for does not occur for large numbers of flavors (). For the transition weakens toward small quark mass but remains first order down to .
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