CPOD2017: Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement

Recent progress in understanding Confinement and Chiral symmetry from Instanton-dyons

9 Aug 2017, 16:30

30m

Lecture Hall 2 (Charles B. Wang Center)

Parallel Session Parallel Session Parallel 3

Speaker

Rasmus Larsen (Stony Brook University)

Description

I will talk about the confinement and Chiral symmetry transitions from the perspective of an interacting ensemble of Instanton-dyons in SU(2) for two flavors. The confinement to deconfinement transition is seen as a transition from entropy dominated to energy dominated, due to the size of the Instanton-dyons being dependent on the Polyakov Loop. Towards higher temperatures the Polyakov loop value increases, which decreases the range of the anti-periodic fermionic zero-modes, and restores Chiral symmetry. Changing one fermion flavor to periodic boundary condition restores explicit center symmetry, and results in Chiral symmetry never being restored.

Presentation materials

Slides

CPOD_-Rasmus.pdf