1205.0538 (Massimo D'Elia et al.)

Theta dependence of the deconfinement temperature in Yang-Mills theories    [PDF]

Massimo D'Elia, Francesco Negro

We determine the theta dependence of the deconfinement temperature of SU(3) pure gauge theory, finding that it decreases in presence of a topological theta term. We do that by performing lattice simulations at imaginary theta, then exploiting analytic continuation. We also give an estimate of such dependence in the limit of a large number of colors N, and compare it with our numerical results.

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