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Topological susceptibility in full QCD at zero and finite temperature

B. Alles·M. D'Elia·A. Di Giacomo
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We present a study of the topological susceptibility $χ$ on the lattice for full QCD with 2 and 4 flavours of staggered fermions at zero and finite temperature T. We find that $χ$ presents a sharp drop across the deconfinement transition. We also study the dependence of $χ$ on the quark mass at T=0: we have no conclusive evidence for the expected chiral behaviour.

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B. Alles, M. D'Elia, A. Di Giacomo. 2000-04-21. Topological susceptibility in full QCD at zero and finite temperature. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0370-2693(00)00556-6

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