Nonperturbative Flow Equations with Heat-Kernel Methods at finite Temperature
Abstract
We derive nonperturbative flow equations within an effective constituent quark model for two quark flavors. Heat-kernel methods are employed for a renormalization group improved effective potential. We study the evolution of the effective potential with respect to an infrared cutoff scale k at vanishing temperature. At the first stage we omit corrections coming from the anomalous dimension. This investigation is extrapolated to finite temperature, where we find a second order phase transition in the chiral limit at Tc ≈ 130 MeV. Due to a smooth decoupling of massive modes, we can directly link the low-temperature four-dimensional theory to the three-dimensional high-temperature theory and can determine universal critical exponents.
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