Abstract
We study the thermodynamics of lattice quantum chromodynamics for two and four flavors of staggered fermions at temperature T=1/4a, where a is the lattice spacing. For four flavors with mass below 0.05/a we find evidence for a first-order chiral-symmetry-breaking phase transition. For two flavors there is an increasingly rapid crossover as the mass is lowered, but we find no conclusive evidence of a first-order transition for quark masses down to 0.0125/a. A rough estimate is made of the zero-mass transition temperature for two flavors of quarks.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3972-3980 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1987 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)