Deconfinement in Yang-Mills theory through toroidal compactification with deformation
Autor: | Simic, Dusan, Unsal, Mithat |
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Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.105027 |
Popis: | We introduce field theory techniques through which the deconfinement transition of four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory can be moved to a semi-classical domain where it becomes calculable using two-dimensional field theory. We achieve this through a double- trace deformation of toroidally compactified Yang-Mills theory on R2 \times S1_L \times S1_{\beta}. At large N, fixed-L, and arbitrary {\beta}, the thermodynamics of the deformed theory is equivalent to that of ordinary Yang-Mills theory at leading order in the large N expansion. At fixed-N, small L and a range of {\beta}, the deformed theory maps to a two-dimensional theory with electric and magnetic (order and disorder) perturbations, analogs of which appear in planar spin-systems and statistical physics. We show that in this regime the deconfinement transition is driven by the competition between electric and magnetic perturbations in this two-dimensional theory. This appears to support the scenario proposed by Liao and Shuryak regarding the magnetic component of the quark-gluon plasma at RHIC. Comment: 25 pgaes, 4 figures |
Databáze: | arXiv |
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