An Ising-Anderson model of localisation in high-temperature QCD

Giordano, Matteo and Kovács, Tamás György and Pittler, Ferenc (2015) An Ising-Anderson model of localisation in high-temperature QCD. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2015 (4). ISSN 1126-6708

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Abstract

We discuss a possible mechanism leading to localisation of the low-lying Dirac eigenmodes in high-temperature lattice QCD, based on the spatial fluctuations of the local Polyakov lines in the partially ordered configurations above Tc. This mechanism provides a qualitative explanation of the dependence of localisation on the temperature and on the lattice spacing, and also of the phase diagram of QCD with an imaginary chemical potential. To test the viability of this mechanism we propose a three-dimensional effective, Anderson- like model, mimicking the effect of the Polyakov lines on the quarks. The diagonal, on-site disorder is governed by a three-dimensional Ising-like spin model with continuous spins. Our numerical results show that localised modes are indeed present in the ordered phase of the Ising model, thus supporting the proposed mechanism for localisation in QCD.

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