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Concerning the quark condensate

K. Langfeld, R. Pullirsch, H. Markum, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0301024

Abstract

A continuum expression for the trace of the massive dressed-quark propagator is used to explicate a connection between the infrared limit of the QCD Dirac operator's spectrum and the quark condensate appearing in the operator product expansion, and the connection is verified via comparison with a lattice-QCD simulation. The pseudoscalar vacuum polarisation provides a good approximation to the condensate over a larger range of current-quark masses.

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