Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-02-18
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Lectures given at the APCTP-RCNP Joint International School on Physics of Hadrons and QCD (Osaka, 1998) and the 1998 YITP-Work
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In the first part of these lectures we discuss the infrared limit of the spectrum of the QCD Dirac operator. We discuss the global symmetries of the QCD partition function and show that the Dirac spectrum near zero virtuality is determined by the pattern of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking of a QCD-like partition function with additional bosonic valence quarks and their super-symmetric partners. We show the existence of an energy scale below which the fluctuations of the QCD Dirac spectrum are given by a chiral Random Matrix Theory (chRMT) with the global symmetries of the QCD partition function. Physically, for valence quark masses below this scale the partition function is dominated by the zero momentum modes. In the theory of disordered systems, this energy scale is known as the Thouless energy. In the second part of these lectures we discuss chRMT as a schematic model for the QCD partition function at nonzero temperature and chemical potential. We discuss novel features resulting from the non-Hermiticity of the Dirac operator. The analysis by Stephanov of the failure of the quenched approximation, the phase diagram of the chRMT partition function, as well as the properties of Yang-Lee zeros are discussed. We argue that a localization transition does not occur in the presence of light quarks. Several results will be derived in full detail. We mention the flavor symmetries of the QCD Dirac operator for two colors, the calculation of the valence quark mass dependence of the chiral condensate and the reduction of the chRMT partition function to the finite volume partition function.
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