Topology of SU(N) gauge theories at T 0 and T T_c

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.02.037zbMATH Open1207.81074arXivhep-lat/0401028OpenAlexW1520595567MaRDI QIDQ875804FDOQ875804

Michael Teper, B. Lucini, Urs Wenger

Publication date: 16 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We calculate the topological charge density of SU(N) lattice gauge fields for values of N up to N=8. Our T=0 topological susceptibility appears to approach a finite non-zero limit at N=infinity that is consistent with earlier extrapolations from smaller values of N. Near the deconfining temperature Tc we are able to investigate separately the confined and deconfined phases, since the transition is quite strongly first order. We find that the topological susceptibility of the confined phase is always very similar to that at T=0. By contrast, in the deconfined phase at larger N there are no topological fluctuations except for rare, isolated and small instantons. This shows that as N->infinity the large-T suppression of large instantons and the large-N suppression of small instantons overlap, even at T=Tc, so as to suppress all topological fluctuations in the deconfined phase. In the confined phase by contrast, the size distribution is much the same at all T, becoming more peaked as N grows, suggesting that D(rho) is proportional to a delta function at N=infinity, centered on rho close to 1/Tc.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0401028

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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