Finite-size test for the finite-temperature chiral phase transition in lattice QCD
- 13 August 1990
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 65 (7) , 816-819
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.65.816
Abstract
A finite-size test was carried out for the finite-temperature chiral phase transition in QCD for flavor number Nf=4 and 2 on a lattice with four time slices using the Kogut-Susskind quark action at quark mass of 0.025 in lattice units. All the evidence supports a first-order transition for Nf=4. For Nf=2, however, the data on spatial lattice up to 123 fail to yield convincing finite-size signatures for a first-order transition at this quark massKeywords
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