Chiral symmetry breaking and cooling in lattice QCD
Abstract
Chiral symmetry breaking is calculated as a function of cooling in quenched lattice QCD. A nonzero signal is found for the chiral condensate beyond 100 cooling steps, suggesting that there is chiral symmetry breaking associated with instantons. Quantitatively, the chiral condensate in cooled gauge field configurations is small compared to the value without cooling.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- February 1996
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-lat/9511008
- Bibcode:
- 1996PhRvD..53.1709W
- Keywords:
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- 12.38.Gc;
- 11.15.Ha;
- 11.15.Kc;
- Lattice QCD calculations;
- Lattice gauge theory;
- Classical and semiclassical techniques;
- High Energy Physics - Lattice
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