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Static quark-antiquark potential and Dirac eigenvector correlators
We represent the Polyakov loop correlator as a spectral sum of correlators of
eigenvectors of the lattice Dirac operator. This spectral representation is
studied numerically using quenched SU(3) configurations below and above the
deconfinement temperature. We analyze whether the individual Dirac eigenvector
correlators differ in the confined and deconfined phases. The decay properties
of the normalized Dirac eigenvector correlators turn out to be essentially
identical in the two phases, but the amplitudes change. This change of the
amplitudes shifts the relative contributions of the individual Dirac
eigenvector correlators and is the driving mechanism for the transition from
the confining static potential into the deconfining one
Thermodynamic instabilities in dynamical quark models with complex conjugate mass poles
We show that the CJT thermodynamic potential of dynamical quark models with a
quark propagator represented by complex conjugate mass poles inevitably
exhibits thermodynamic instabilities. We find that the minimal coupling of the
quark sector to a Polyakov loop potential can strongly suppress but not
completely remove such instabilities. This general effect is explicitly
demonstrated in the framework of a covariant, chirally symmetric, effective
quark model.Comment: Minor typos corrected, submitted versio
A practical solution to the sign problem at finite theta-vacuum angle
We propose a practical way of circumventing the sign problem in lattice QCD
simulations with a theta-vacuum term. This method is the reweighting method for
the QCD Lagrangian after the U_A(1) transformation. In the Lagrangian, the
P-odd mass term as a cause of the sign problem is minimized. In order to find
out a good reference system in the reweighting method, we estimate the average
reweighting factor by using the two-flavor NJL model and eventually find a good
reference system.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
Lattice QCD at finite temperature: Evidence for calorons from the eigenvectors of the Dirac operator
We analyze the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the staggered Dirac operator
in quenched lattice QCD in the vicinity of the deconfinement phase transition
using the L\"uscher-Weisz gauge action. The spectral and localization
properties of the low-lying eigenmodes show characteristic differences between
the Z_3 sectors above the critical temperature T_c. These findings can be
interpreted in terms of calorons.Comment: Lattice2001(hightemp), 3 pages, 2 figure
Light-cone distribution amplitudes of the baryon octet
We present results of the first ab initio lattice QCD calculation of the
normalization constants and first moments of the leading twist distribution
amplitudes of the full baryon octet, corresponding to the small transverse
distance limit of the associated S-wave light-cone wave functions. The P-wave
(higher twist) normalization constants are evaluated as well. The calculation
is done using flavors of dynamical (clover) fermions on lattices of
different volumes and pion masses down to 222 MeV. Significant SU(3) flavor
symmetry violation effects in the shape of the distribution amplitudes are
observed.Comment: Update to the version published in JHE
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