Interface tension in quenched QCD
Abstract
We calculate the tension σ of the interface between the confined and deconfined phases by the histogram method in SU(3) lattice gauge theory for temporal extents of 4 and 6 using the recent high-statistics data of the QCDPAX Collaboration. The results are σ/T3c=0.0292(22) and 0.0218(33) for Nt=4 and 6, respectively. The ratio σ/T3c shows a scaling violation similar to that already observed for the latent heat L. However, we find that the physically interesting dimensionless combinations (σ3/L2T)1/2 and σT/L scale within the statistical errors.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- April 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.49.3540
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-lat/9309003
- Bibcode:
- 1994PhRvD..49.3540I
- Keywords:
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- 12.38.Gc;
- 11.15.Ha;
- 68.10.Cr;
- 98.80.Cq;
- Lattice QCD calculations;
- Lattice gauge theory;
- Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe;
- High Energy Physics - Lattice;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 13 pages with 2 PostScript figures, LaTeX, CERN-TH.6798/93, AZPH-TH/93-04, UTHEP-252