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Critical mass in nonzero temperature QCD with staggered fermions

I. M. Barbour, A. J. Bell, E. G. Klepfish

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9205019

Abstract

The behaviour of the chiral condensate in QCD is investigated by means of a study of the distribution of the zeros of the partition function in the complex quark mass plane. Simulations are performed at fixed temperature on three different spatial volumes at β=5.04 and at β=4.9 and β=5.2 on a 44 lattice. Evidence is found for a chirally related transition at non-zero quark mass in the intermediate coupling region for β< 5.2 but superimposed upon a smooth behaviour for the condensate. The critical mass at which this transition is found is only weakly dependent on the spatial volume and decreas with decreasing temperature.

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