Generalized Potts-models and their relevance for gauge theories

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2007.006zbMATH Open1133.81354arXivhep-lat/0610043MaRDI QIDQ2473397FDOQ2473397

Authors: Andreas Wipf, Thomas Heinzl, Tobias Kaestner, Christian Wozar 

Publication date: 27 February 2008

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the Polyakov loop dynamics originating from finite-temperature Yang-Mills theory. The effective actions contain center-symmetric terms involving powers of the Polyakov loop, each with its own coupling. For a subclass with two couplings we perform a detailed analysis of the statistical mechanics involved. To this end we employ a modified mean field approximation and Monte Carlo simulations based on a novel cluster algorithm. We find excellent agreement of both approaches. The phase diagram exhibits both first and second order transitions between symmetric, ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases with phase boundaries merging at three tricritical points. The critical exponents $u$ and $gamma$ at the continuous transition between symmetric and antiferromagnetic phases are the same as for the 3-state spin Potts model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0610043

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zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo simulationsmean field approximationgauge theoriesPotts modelsPolyakov loop dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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