Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2005-11-28
Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 076002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
24 pages, 6 figures. New version includes: a more extensive discussion of strong-coupling expansions and their region of valid
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.73.076002
We study the critical behavior at nonzero temperature phase transitions of an effective Hamiltonian derived from lattice QCD in the strong-coupling expansion. Following studies of related quantum spin systems that have a similar Hamiltonian, we show that for large $N_c$ and fixed $g^2N_c$, mean field scaling is not expected, and that the critical region has a finite width at $N_c=\infty$. A different behavior rises for $N_f\to \infty$ and fixed $N_c$ and $g^2/N_f$, which we study in two spatial dimensions and for $N_c=1$. We find that the width of the critical region is suppressed by $1/N_f^p$ with $p=1/2$, and argue that a generalization to $N_c>1$ and to three dimensions will change this only in detail (e.g. the value of $p>0$), but not in principle. We conclude by stating under what conditions this suppression is expected, and remark on possible realizations of this phenomenon in lattice gauge theories in the continuum.
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