Roberge-Weiss transition in \(N_\text{f}=2\) QCD with Wilson fermions and \(N_\tau=6\)

QCD with imaginary chemical potential is free of the sign problem and exhibits a rich phase structure constraining the phase diagram at real chemical potential. We simulate the critical endpoint of the Roberge-Weiss (RW) transition at imaginary chemical potential for \(N_\text{f}=2\) QCD on \(N_\tau...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2016-04
Hauptverfasser: Cuteri, Francesca, Pinke, Christopher, Sciarra, Alessandro, Czaban, Christopher, Philipsen, Owe
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Zusammenfassung:QCD with imaginary chemical potential is free of the sign problem and exhibits a rich phase structure constraining the phase diagram at real chemical potential. We simulate the critical endpoint of the Roberge-Weiss (RW) transition at imaginary chemical potential for \(N_\text{f}=2\) QCD on \(N_\tau=6\) lattices with standard Wilson fermions. As found on coarser lattices, the RW endpoint is a triple point connecting the deconfinement/chiral transitions in the heavy/light quark mass regions and changes to a second-order endpoint for intermediate masses. These regimes are separated by two tricritical values of the quark mass, which we determine by extracting the critical exponent \(\nu\) from a systematic finite size scaling analysis of the Binder cumulant of the imaginary part of the Polyakov loop. We are able to explain a previously observed finite size effect afflicting the scaling of the Binder cumulant in the regime of three-phase coexistence. Compared to \(N_\tau=4\) lattices, the tricritical masses are shifted towards smaller values. Exploratory results on \(N_\tau=8\) as well as comparison with staggered simulations suggest that significantly finer lattices are needed before a continuum extrapolation becomes feasible.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1512.07180