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Why fluctuations of conserved charges in the confining regime above $T_{ch}$ behave as if the quarks were free?

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L. Ya. Glozman

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 14 Jun 2026

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The authors' main claim In other words, the conserved charges do not see confinement, in contrast to the mesonic correlators.

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CitationL. Ya. Glozman. "Why fluctuations of conserved charges in the confining regime above $T_{ch}$ behave as if the quarks were free?." arXiv:2606.15798 (2026). https://pith.science/paper/YEEPYTBK
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Some cumulants of the fluctuations of conserved charges soon above the chiral crossover behave as if the quarks were free. This was taken by many as evidence of deconfinement. At the same temperatures the mesonic correlators reveal the chiral spin and SU(4) symmetries, indicating that the propagating degrees of freedom are massless quarks connected into color singlets by the chromoelectric confining string. These correlators are qualitatively different from the free quark gas. Here we clarify the reason for the difference. The conserved quark number densities do not propagate in time but do propagate in spatial directions. The mesonic propagators calculated in full QCD differ radically from the free quark loop (quark gas) above T_ch. In contrast, the quark number density spatial propagator in full QCD at T > 220 MeV is very close to the free quark loop. In other words, the conserved charges do not see confinement, in contrast to the mesonic correlators. This is consistent with the well understood quark-hadron duality at T=0 in e^+e^- -> hadrons, where at invariant masses above 2 GeV the cross-section in the confining regime is represented by the free quark loop plus small perturbative corrections. All these features above T_ch but below the deconfinement temperature T_d can be combined within the following microscopic picture of the stringy fluid matter. It is a medium of the overlapping strongly interacting color singlet clusters. The quark interchanges between the clusters, required by Paili principle, make the quarks quasifree, which is reflected in fluctuations of conserved charges.

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s0 Some cumulants of the fluctuations of conserved charges soon above the chiral crossover behave as if the quarks were free. background 0.91 0.23 0.10 asserted 0.95
s1 This was taken by many as evidence of deconfinement. background 0.97 0.05 0.03 asserted 0.98
s2 At the same temperatures the mesonic correlators reveal the chiral spin and SU(4) symmetries, indicating that the propagating degrees of freedom are massless quarks connected into color singlets by the chromoelectric confining string. result 0.89 0.53 0.21 hedged possibility 0.59
s3 These correlators are qualitatively different from the free quark gas. result 0.86 0.48 0.06 asserted 1.00
s4 Here we clarify the reason for the difference. contribution 0.80 0.57 0.04 asserted 0.71
s5 The conserved quark number densities do not propagate in time but do propagate in spatial directions. result 0.92 0.66 0.23 asserted 1.00
s6 The mesonic propagators calculated in full QCD differ radically from the free quark loop (quark gas) above T_ch. result 0.94 0.71 0.08 asserted 1.00
s7 In contrast, the quark number density spatial propagator in full QCD at T > 220 MeV is very close to the free quark loop. result 1.00 0.80 0.24 asserted 1.00
s8 In other words, the conserved charges do not see confinement, in contrast to the mesonic correlators. interpretation 0.67 0.71 0.62 asserted 1.00
s9 This is consistent with the well understood quark-hadron duality at T=0 in e^+e^- -> hadrons, where at invariant masses above 2 GeV the cross-section in the confining regime is represented by the free quark loop plus small perturbative corrections. interpretation 0.51 0.05 0.09 hedged possibility 0.83
s10 All these features above T_ch but below the deconfinement temperature T_d can be combined within the following microscopic picture of the stringy fluid matter. interpretation 0.76 0.56 0.12 asserted 0.78
s11 It is a medium of the overlapping strongly interacting color singlet clusters. interpretation 0.93 0.43 0.16 asserted 1.00
s12 The quark interchanges between the clusters, required by Paili principle, make the quarks quasifree, which is reflected in fluctuations of conserved charges. interpretation 0.99 0.55 0.48 asserted 0.95

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Some cumulants of the fluctuations of conserved charges soon above the chiral crossover behave as if the quarks were free. This was taken by many as evidence of deconfinement. At the same temperatures the mesonic correlators reveal the chiral spin and SU(4) symmetries, indicating that the propagating degrees of freedom are massless quarks connected into color singlets by the chromoelectric confining string. These correlators are qualitatively different from the free quark gas. Here we clarify the reason for the difference. The conserved quark number densities do not propagate in time but do propagate in spatial directions. The mesonic propagators calculated in full QCD differ radically from the free quark loop (quark gas) above T_ch. In contrast, the quark number density spatial propagator in full QCD at T > 220 MeV is very close to the free quark loop. In other words, the conserved charges do not see confinement, in contrast to the mesonic correlators. This is consistent with the well understood quark-hadron duality at T=0 in e^+e^- -> hadrons, where at invariant masses above 2 GeV the cross-section in the confining regime is represented by the free quark loop plus small perturbative corrections. All these features above T_ch but below the deconfinement temperature T_d can be combined within the following microscopic picture of the stringy fluid matter. It is a medium of the overlapping strongly interacting color singlet clusters. The quark interchanges between the clusters, required by Paili principle, make the quarks quasifree, which is reflected in fluctuations of conserved charges.

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  • To visualize this discussion we show in Fig. [ref] a complete set of spatial isovector correlators calculated in $N_F=2$ QCD at physical quark masses with chirally symmetric Dirac operator [ref] .

    Symmetries of spatial meson correlators in high temperature QCD · Comparison of the QCD correlators with the free quark gas correlators. · 0.90

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  • It was demonstrated in Refs. [ref] that the chiral symmetry restoration in the confining regime happens because of Paili blocking of the quark levels, required for the existence of the chiral condensate, by the thermal excitations of quarks and antiquarks.

    Chiral symmetry restoration at finite temperature in a model with manifest confinement · Microscopic picture of the stringy fluid · 0.98

  • It was demonstrated in Refs. [ref] that the chiral symmetry restoration in the confining regime happens because of Paili blocking of the quark levels, required for the existence of the chiral condensate, by the thermal excitations of quarks and antiquarks.

    Confined but chirally and chiral spin symmetric hot matter · Microscopic picture of the stringy fluid · 0.98

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