Study of the order of the phase transition in pure U(1) gauge theory with Villain action

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(99)85181-0MaRDI QIDQ5961364zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. Cox, T. Neuhaus, Hendryk Pfeiffer

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/9809017

zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamic limitdeconfinementfour-dimensional lattice theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: We address the question of the order of the deconfinement phase transition of four dimensional U(1) lattice gauge theory. Simulations of the Z-gauge theory dual to the Villain action on toroidal lattices up to lattice sizes of 28^4 give results consistent with both, a vanishing and a nonvanishing discontinuity in the thermodynamic limit. A decision on the order of the phase transition requires still larger lattice sizes.

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