Crossover to non-universal microscopic spectral fluctuations in lattice gauge theory

M. E. Berbenni-Bitsch, M. Göckeler, T. Guhr, A. D. Jackson, J. Z. Ma, S. Meyer, A. Schäfer, H. A. Weidenmüller, T. Wettig, T. Wilke

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Abstract

The spectrum of the Dirac operator near zero virtuality obtained in lattice gauge simulations is known to be universally described by chiral random matrix theory. We address the question of the maximum energy for which this universality persists. For this purpose, we analyze large ensembles of complete spectra of the Euclidean Dirac operator for staggered fermions. We calculate the disconnected scalar susceptibility and the microscopic number variance for the chiral symplectic ensemble of random matrices and compare the results with lattice Dirac spectra for quenched SU(2). The crossover to a non-universal regime is clearly identified and found to scale with the square of the linear lattice size and with fπ2, in agreement with theoretical expectations.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)14-20
Number of pages7
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume438
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 15 1998

Keywords

  • Chiral random matrix models
  • Lattice simulations of QCD
  • Scalar susceptibilty
  • Spectrum of the Dirac operator
  • Thouless energy
  • Universal behaviour

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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