QCD quark condensate in external magnetic fields

G. S. Bali, F. Bruckmann, G. Endrodi, Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz, A. Schäfer

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Abstract

We present a comprehensive analysis of the light condensates in QCD with 1+1+1 sea quark flavors (with mass-degenerate light quarks of different electric charges) at zero and nonzero temperatures of up to 190MeV and external magnetic fields B<1GeV2/e. We employ stout smeared staggered fermions with physical quark masses and extrapolate the results to the continuum limit. At low temperatures we confirm the magnetic catalysis scenario predicted by many model calculations while around the crossover the condensate develops a complex dependence on the external magnetic field, resulting in a decrease of the transition temperature.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number071502
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume86
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 8 2012

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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