Predicting the Aoki phase using the chiral lagrangian

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(99)85033-6MaRDI QIDQ5961258zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen Sharpe, Robert L. Singleton

Publication date 24 April 2002

Published in Nuclear Physics. B. Proceedings Supplements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9808047

zbMATH Keywords

continuum limittwo-flavor unquenched lattice QCDWilson fermion phase diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: This work is concerned with the phase diagram of Wilson fermions in the mass and coupling constant plane for two-flavor (unquenched) QCD. We show that as the continuum limit is approached, one can study the lattice theory using the continuum chiral Lagrangian, supplemented by additional terms proportional to powers of the lattice spacing. We find two possible phase structures at non-zero lattice spacing: (1) There is an Aoki phase of spontaneously broken flavor and parity, with two massless Goldstone-pions, and a width $Delta{m}_{0}sim{a}^3$; (2) There is no spontaneous symmetry breaking, and all three pions have equal mass of order $a$. Present numerical simulations suggest that the former option is realized.

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