Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2008-10-27
PoS LATTICE2008:198,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
8 pages, 4 Postscript figures, uses PoS documentclass
Scientific paper
Using the overlap Dirac operator I show that, contrary to some expectations, even well above the critical temperature there is not necessarily a gap in the Dirac spectrum in pure SU(2) gauge theory. This happens when the Polyakov loop and the fermion boundary condition combine to give close to periodic boundary condition for the fermions in the time direction. In this Polyakov loop sector there is a non-vanishing density of Dirac eigenvalues around zero which implies that chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken. I demonstrate this both directly and also by finding good agreement with the random matrix theory prediction for the distribution of the lowest Dirac eigenvalue. I show that the chiral condensate increases with the temperature therefore it is very unlikely to be explained by topological fluctuations that become rapidly smaller above T_c. Finally I show that it is only a small fraction of the lowest Dirac eigenvalues that decide which Polyakov loop sector is favored by the fermion determinant if dynamical fermions are turned on. This provides a qualitative understanding of how the loss of confinement above T_c implies the restoration of chiral symmetry.
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