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Interacting instanton liquid in QCD at zero and finite temperatures

T. Schäfer* and E. V. Shuryak

  • Department of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794

  • *Present address: Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
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Phys. Rev. D 53, 6522 – Published 1 June, 1996

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.53.6522

Abstract

In this paper we study the statistical mechanics of the instanton liquid in QCD. After introducing the partition function as well as the gauge-field- and quark-induced interactions between instantons, we describe a method to calculate the free energy of the instanton system. We use this method to determine the equilibrium density and the equation of state from numerical simulations of the instanton ensemble in QCD for various numbers of flavors. We find that there is a critical number of flavors above which chiral symmetry is restored in the ground state. In the physical case of two light and one intermediate mass flavors, the system undergoes a chiral phase transition at T≃125 MeV. We show that the mechanism for this transition is a rearrangement of the instanton liquid, going from a disordered, random phase at low temperatures to a strongly correlated, molecular phase at high temperature. We also study the behavior of mesonic susceptibilities near the phase transition.

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Phys. Rev. D 53, 6522– Published 1 June, 1996
  • Received 25 September 1995

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