• Title of article

    Non-trivial critical exponents for finite temperature chiral transitions at fixed total fermion number

  • Author/Authors

    F.S. Nogueira، نويسنده , , M.B. Silva-Neto، نويسنده , , N.F. Svaiter، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1998
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    339
  • To page
    344
  • Abstract
    We analyze the finite temperature chiral restoration transition of the (D=d+1)-dimensional Gross-Neveu model for the case of a large number of flavors and fixed total fermion number. This leads to the study of the model with a nonzero imaginary chemical potential. In this formulation of the theory, we have obtained that, in the transition region, the model is described by a chiral conformal field theory where the concepts of dimensional reduction and universality do apply due to a transmutation of statistics which makes fermions act as if they were bosons, having zero energy. This result should be generic for theories with dynamical symmetry breaking, such as Quantum Chromodynamics.
  • Keywords
    Dynamical symmetry breaking , Finite temperature QFT , Dimensional reduction , Phase transitions , Chemical potential
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Serial Year
    1998
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Record number

    910624