Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2007-02-07
Phys.Rev.D75:116003,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
22 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.116003
The expectation value of the complex phase factor of the fermion determinant is computed in the microscopic domain of QCD at nonzero chemical potential. We find that the average phase factor is non-vanishing below a critical value of the chemical potential equal to the half the pion mass and vanishes exponentially in the volume for larger values of the chemical potential. This holds for QCD with dynamical quarks as well as for quenched and phase quenched QCD. The average phase factor has an essential singularity for zero chemical potential and cannot be obtained by analytic continuation from imaginary chemical potential or by means of a Taylor expansion. The leading order correction in the $p$-expansion of the chiral Lagrangian is calculated as well.
Splittorff Kim
Verbaarschot Jacobus J. M.
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