A novel computation of the thermodynamics of the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory

Abstract

We present an accurate computation of the Equation of State of the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory using shifted boundary conditions in the temporal direction. In this framework, the entropy density s can be obtained in a simple way from the expectation value of the space-time components T0k of the energy-momentum tensor. At each given value of the temperature, s is measured in an independent way at several values of the lattice spacing. The extrapolation to the continuum limit shows small discretization effects with respect to the statistical errors of approximatively 0.5%.