The chiral phase transition, random matrix models, and lattice data

Abstract

We present two pieces of evidence in support of the conjecture that the microscopic spectral density of the Dirac operator is a universal quantity. First, we compare lattice data to predictions from random matrix theory. Second, we show that the functional form of the microscopic spectral correlations remains unchanged in random matrix models which take account of finite temperature. Furthermore, we present a random matrix model for the chiral phase transition in which all Matsubara frequencies are included.