Clear Evidence for a First-Order Chiral Transition in QCD
- 24 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 57 (21), 2621-2624
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.2621
Abstract
We present evidence from numerical simulations for a first-order chiral-symmetry-restoration transition in QCD at finite temperature. The transition appears only for small quark masses. We use an exact algorithm to incorporate the dynamical quarks.Keywords
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