Order of the Deconfining Phase Transition in Pure-Gauge QCD
- 3 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 61 (14), 1545-1548
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.1545
Abstract
We study the behavior of the string tension in the SU(3) lattice pure-gauge theory close to the deconfining critical point. We find very large correlation lengths, increasing with the lattice size. This result is strongly suggestive of a second-order phase transition, and excludes the presence of a strong first-order transition.Keywords
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