Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2006-02-02
Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 114512
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
21 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.73.114512
We compare the grand canonical partition function at fixed chemical potential mu with the canonical partition function at fixed baryon number B, formally and by numerical simulations at mu=0 and B=0 with four flavours of staggered quarks. We verify that the free energy densities are equal in the thermodynamic limit, and show that they can be well described by the hadron resonance gas at T < T_c and by the free fermion gas at T>T_c. Small differences between the two ensembles, for thermodynamic observables characterising the deconfinement phase transition, vanish with increasing lattice size. These differences are solely caused by contributions of non-zero baryon density sectors, which are exponentially suppressed with increasing volume. The Polyakov loop shows a different behaviour: for all temperatures and volumes, its expectation value is exactly zero in the canonical formulation, whereas it is always non-zero in the commonly used grand-canonical formulation. We clarify this paradoxical difference, and show that the non-vanishing Polyakov loop expectation value is due to contributions of non-zero triality states, which are not physical, because they give zero contribution to the partition function.
Forcrand Ph de
Kratochvila Slavo
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