It has been conjectured that the phase transition in the Ginzburg-Landau theory is dual to the XY model transition. We study numerically a particular limit of the GL theory where this duality becomes exact, clarifying some of the problems encountered in standard GL theory simulations. This may also explain the failure of the superconductor experiments to observe the XY model scaling.
The coupling between fermionic matter and gauge fields plays a fundamental role in our understanding of nature, while at the same time posing a challenging problem for theoretical modeling. In this situation, controlled information can be gained by c
ombining different complementary approaches. Here, we study a confinement transition in a system of $N_f$ flavors of interacting Dirac fermions charged under a U(1) gauge field in 2+1 dimensions. Using Quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate a lattice model that exhibits a continuous transition at zero temperature between a gapless deconfined phase, described by three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics, and a gapped confined phase, in which the system develops valence-bond-solid order. We argue that the quantum critical point is in the universality class of the QED$_3$-Gross-Neveu-XY model. We study this field theory within a $1/N_f$ expansion in fixed dimension as well as a renormalization group analysis in $4-epsilon$ space-time dimensions. The consistency between numerical and analytical results is revealed from large to intermediate flavor number.
High-temperature bivariate expansions have been derived for the two-spin correlation-function in a variety of classical lattice XY (planar rotator) models in which spatially isotropic interactions among first-neighbor spins compete with spatially iso
tropic or anisotropic (in particular uniaxial) interactions among next-to-nearest-neighbor spins. The expansions, calculated for cubic lattices of dimension d=1,2 and 3, are expressed in terms of the two variables K1=J1/kT and K2=J2/kT, where J1 and J2 are the nearest-neighbor and the next-to-nearest-neighbor exchange couplings, respectively. This report deals in particular with the properties of the d=3 uniaxial XY model (ANNNXY model) for which the bivariate expansions have been computed through the 18-th order, thus extending by 12 orders the results so far available and making a study of this model possible over a wide range of values of the competition parameter R=J2/J1.
Analyzing correlation functions of charmonia at finite temperature ($T$) on $32^3times(32-96)$ anisotropic lattices by the maximum entropy method (MEM), we find that $J/psi$ and $eta_c$ survive as distinct resonances in the plasma even up to $T simeq
1.6 T_c$ and that they eventually dissociate between $1.6 T_c$ and $1.9 T_c$ ($T_c$ is the critical temperature of deconfinement). This suggests that the deconfined plasma is non-perturbative enough to hold heavy-quark bound states. The importance of having sufficient number of temporal data points in the MEM analysis is also emphasized.
Quantum chromodynamics with two zero mass flavors is expected to exhibit a phase transition with O(4) critical behavior. Fixing the universality class is important for phenomenology and for facilitating the extrapolation of simulation data to physica
l quark mass values. At Lattice 96 the Tsukuba and Bielefeld groups reported results from new simulations with dynamical staggered quarks at $N_t = 4$, which suggested a departure from the expected critical behavior. We report observations of similar deviations and discuss efforts in progress to understand this phenomenon.
We study the behavior across the deconfinement phase transition of the chromoelectric flux tube generated by a static quark and a static antiquark for several distances between them. We present preliminary results for distances up to 1.33 fm and temperatures up to $1.5 T_c$.
Thomas Neuhaus
,Arttu Rajantie
,Kari Rummukainen
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(2002)
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"The inverted XY universality of the superconductivity phase transition"
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Kari Rummukainen
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