Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1996-06-22
Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 6909-6922
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
40 pages, LaTeX, 12 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.6909
We investigate the confinement-Coulomb phase transition in the four-dimensional (4D) pure compact U(1) gauge theory on spherical lattices. The action contains the Wilson coupling beta and the double charge coupling gamma. The lattice is obtained from the 4D surface of the 5D cubic lattice by its radial projection onto a 4D sphere, and made homogeneous by means of appropriate weight factors for individual plaquette contributions to the action. On such lattices the two-state signal, impeding the studies of this theory on toroidal lattices, is absent for gamma le 0. Furthermore, here a consistent finite-size scaling behavior of several bulk observables is found, with the correlation length exponent nu in the range nu = 0.35 - 40. These observables include Fisher zeros, specific-heat and cumulant extrema as well as pseudocritical values of beta at fixed gamma. The most reliable determination of nu by means of the Fisher zeros gives nu = 0.365(8). The phase transition at gamma le 0 is thus very probably of 2nd order and belongs to the universality class of a non-Gaussian fixed point.
Jersak Jiri
Lang Christian B.
Neuhaus Thomas
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