Spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking of lattice QCD with massless dynamical quarks

Abstract

One of the most challenging issues in QCD is the investigation of spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking, which is characterized by the non-vanishing chiral condensate when the bare fermion mass is zero. In standard methods, one has to perform expensive lattice simulations at multiple bare quark masses, and employ some modeled function to extrapolate the data to the chiral limit. This paper applies the probability distribution function method to computing the chiral condensate in lattice QCD with massless dynamical quarks, without any ambiguous mass extrapolation. The results for staggered quarks indicates that the method might be a more efficient alternative for investigating the spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking in lattice QCD.