Chiral Symmetry Restoration and $Z_N$ Symmetry

Michael C. Ogilvie; Peter N. Meisinger

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Chiral Symmetry Restoration and $Z_N$ Symmetry

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Submitted 7 Dec 1995 · 12 references

Pith's verdict: The Z_3 sign mechanism is correct and cheap; the quantitative model around it is standard NJL scaffolding whose strength depends on an externally imposed, uncomputed Polyakov loop.

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CitationMichael C. Ogilvie, Peter N. Meisinger. "Chiral Symmetry Restoration and $Z_N$ Symmetry." arXiv:hep-lat/9512011 (1995). https://pith.science/paper/EM4EOJAV

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The thing to take away: the sign mechanism is right, and it is cheap. In the image expansion of the finite-temperature quark determinant, the n=1 term carries tr_c(P + P†), so it flips sign between Z_3 phases. That one observation explains the Chandrasekharan-Christ lattice result at the level of sign, and it is checkable in two lines from Eq. (2.7). Everything else in the paper is scaffolding around it, and the scaffolding is standard and honestly labeled: NJL effective potential in a uniform A_0 background, Hartree truncation, non-covariant cutoff, parameters fixed the usual way (M = 335 MeV, Lambda = 631 MeV, G Lambda^2 = 2.2 from f_pi and the condensate). The phi = N_c limit recovers ordinary NJL with T_c = 194.6 MeV, which is the right sanity check. The SU(N) remark, N+1 distinct chiral behaviors, follows directly and is worth having on record. Contrary to what the abstract alone suggests, the authors do state their limitations explicitly in the body; a reader who only skims will miss that. Where it is soft, in order of how much it matters. First, phi is imposed, not computed: a step function, zero below T_d, magnitude a free parameter (2.0 in Fig. 4). They say so plainly, including that at phi = 0 the potential in Eq. (2.10) has no temperature dependence at all, so T_c >= T_d is built in, and that lattice does not measure phi directly because of renormalization. The model therefore cannot predict where the chiral transition sits; the lattice comparison is a sign check. Second, and this is the one I would push on: the abstract says chiral symmetry is not restored at the deconfinement transition in the negative-trace phases without qualification, while the body correctly hedges with 'unless the temperature is significantly greater than the T_c of the corresponding real phase.' The effect scales with |phi|/N_c; for small phi the flipped term is a perturbation and the transition could still land near T_d. The abstract should carry the hedge. Third, minor: the agreement with simulation rests on a preprint, and the Fig. 3 constraint is weak by their own admission. Worth a referee's time. Anyone working on the quenched chiral/deconfinement interplay, or on metastable Z_3 lifetimes in full QCD, should read it; the closing point that absent chiral symmetry breaking lowers the bounce action is a real, testable consequence.

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[Eqs. (2.7) and (2.8)] The sign of the n=1 term as printed is positive for Re tr_c(P) > 0. At φ=N_c, Eq. (2.8) gives a positive finite-temperature correction, whereas the standard NJL limit requires a negative correction (the familiar -(4N_c/β)∫ln(1+e^{-βω})). The paper's own verbal argument in §II and the numerical results in Fig. 4 require the opposite sign: the correction must lower V at small M relative to large M in the real positive phase. The authors should recheck the sign and the factor of β in passing from Eq. (2.6) to Eq. (2.7) and correct Eq. (2.8) accordingly. This is load-bearing because the entire claim rests on the sign of this term.
[Abstract [abstract:s5] versus §III] The abstract states unconditionally that chiral symmetry 'is not restored at the deconfinement transition' in the two phases with Re tr_c(P) < 0, while §III correctly hedges ('will not have a minimum at σ_f = 0, unless the temperature is significantly greater than the Tc of the corresponding real phase'). The demonstration in Fig. 4 uses φ=2.0, and φ is an externally imposed, scheme-dependent parameter that the paper does not compute. The abstract should be qualified to match the body, or the paper should show that the effect is robust for the physical range of φ.
[Eq. (2.10) and §III] At φ=0 the effective potential is temperature-independent, so the model cannot predict Tc/Td independently; it uses the lattice result Tc=Td as input (Fig. 3). The paper acknowledges this, but the consequence is that the comparison to lattice is a consistency check on the sign, not a quantitative prediction. This limitation should be stated in the abstract and conclusions, not only in the body.
[Eqs. (2.10) and (2.11)] The paper presents two resummation approximations that differ qualitatively — Eq. (2.11) gives a chiral restoration transition at twice the NJL Tc even when φ=0 — but does not justify why Eq. (2.10) is used for the numerical results. The sign mechanism survives both, but the quantitative Tc predictions depend on the choice. The authors should explain the physical basis for preferring Eq. (2.10) or show that the conclusions are insensitive to the choice.
[§II, Fig. 2] The paper drops the two rightmost diagrams 'for simplicity' and notes that they need not vanish in the presence of a uniform A_0 background. The error from this truncation is not quantified. Since the A_0 dependence is the whole point, the authors should estimate or bound the contribution of the dropped diagrams, or at least state clearly that the Hartree approximation may not be consistent with the A_0 background.

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[Eq. (2.10)] The zero-temperature term is printed as '- N_cπ² ∫_0^Λ dk k²ω'; it should be '-(N_c/π²)∫_0^Λ dk k²ω' to match the standard normalization.
[Abstract and §II] The abstract contains 'possibilites' and §II contains 'demonstation'; these should be corrected to 'possibilities' and 'demonstration'.
[Fig. 4] The y-axis label 'V(ΨΨ)/(Λg)⁴' is not defined; please define Λ_g and the normalization used in the plot.
[Reference [1]] Reference [1] is a preprint ('to be published'); the comparison to Chandrasekharan-Christ should be confirmed against the final published version.
[Eq. (2.9)] The resummation ansatz is exact for pure Z_3 phases but not for general φ; the text should state the size of the error for φ=2.0.
[§III, SU(4) discussion] The 'naive' scaling argument should be made more precise, since the leading term vanishes in the imaginary phase and the subleading term is suppressed by |φ|²/N_c².
[§I] The justification for using the quark determinant in quenched QCD (Fig. 1) is qualitative; the modeling assumption should be stated more explicitly.

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Chiral symmetry restoration in hot QCD depends on which $Z_3$ phase the Polyakov loop sits in, because the leading finite-temperature correction to the chiral effective potential changes sign with the real part of the colour-traced loop.

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In quenched QCD the chiral transition and the deconfinement transition are usually treated as separate events, and lattice simulations had recently shown that whether chiral symmetry is restored at deconfinement depends on which of the three $Z_3$ phases the Polyakov loop occupies. This paper sets out to explain that dependence from one mechanism rather than record it as a lattice curiosity. The authors argue that the finite-temperature quark determinant is a sum over quark paths that wind around the Euclidean time direction, so each term in the sum carries a power of the Polyakov loop; the leading term therefore changes sign when the real part of the colour-traced Polyakov loop changes sign. If that is right, the chiral condensate is pushed toward restoration in the phase where $trit{c}(mathcal{P})$ is real and positive, and pushed away from restoration in the two phases where its real part is negative. The payoff is a rule that couples the two QCD transitions and generalizes to $SU(N)$ gauge theory.

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The load-bearing device is the image expansion of the finite-temperature quark determinant, $V(sigma, A_0, T) = sum_f [2Gsigma_f^2 - 2N_c int d^3k,(2pi)^{-3} omega_{fvec{k}} - 2beta sum_{n=1}^{infty} (-1)^n/n, trit{c}(mathcal{P}^n + mathcal{P}^{dagger n}) int d^3k,(2pi)^{-3} e^{-nbetaomega_{fvec{k}}}]$, in which each order $n$ counts quark paths winding $n$ times around the Euclidean time direction. Truncating at $n=1$ gives a modified Bessel function $K_2(M/T)$ multiplying $trit{c}(mathcal{P} + mathcal{P}^dagger)$, which makes the sign dependence transparent. To obtain a closed form for numerical work the authors further approximate $trit{c}(mathcal{P}^n) approx N_c (trit{c}mathcal{P}/N_c)^n$ and regulate with a non-covariant cut-off $Lambda$, resumming the series into a logarithmic Fermi-style factor containing $varphi + varphi^*$ and $|varphi|^2/N_c^2$.

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The paper claims that the sign of the leading finite-temperature correction to the effective potential for the chiral condensate is controlled by the sign of $trit{c}(mathcal{P} + mathcal{P}^dagger)$, and that this single fact explains the phase dependence seen in quenched lattice simulations. Working in a chirally invariant Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with $U(N_f) times U(N_c)$ symmetry, the authors couple the quarks to a uniform, temperature-dependent temporal gauge field $A_0$ and compute the effective potential $V(sigma, A_0, T)$ in the Hartree approximation. Expanding the quark determinant as a sum over winding numbers, the $n$-th term is weighted by $trit{c}(mathcal{P}^n + mathcal{P}^{dagger n})$; the $n=1$ term dominates when $T ll M$ and carries the full sign dependence. In the phase where $trit{c}(mathcal{P})$ is real and positive, that term raises the massive minimum relative to the massless one, so the first-order deconfining transition induces chiral symmetry restoration, as simulations find. In the two phases where $mathrm{Re}[trit{c}(mathcal{P})] < 0$, the correction changes sign and instead deepens the broken minimum, so chiral symmetry is not restored at deconfinement; the authors report this agrees with the Chandrasekharan-Christ simulations. For $SU(N)$ the same argument yields $N+1$ distinct chiral behaviors, with only the real-positive phase behaving conventionally.

Load-bearing premise

The Polyakov loop is not computed but imposed by hand as a step function that is zero below the deconfinement temperature and jumps to an adjustable magnitude, so the model cannot predict where the chiral transition sits relative to deconfinement and the agreement with lattice data is a sign check rather than a quantitative test.

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The chiral and deconfining transitions of quenched QCD are coupled through the $Z_3$ phase of the Polyakov loop, so the chiral condensate is not a function of temperature alone.
In the two phases with $mathrm{Re}[trit{c}(mathcal{P})] < 0$, chiral symmetry survives to temperatures well above the critical temperature of the real-positive phase.
For $SU(N)$ gauge theory there are $N+1$ distinct patterns of chiral behavior, with phases related by complex conjugation behaving identically.
In full QCD, where quark effects lift the $Z_N$ degeneracy, the persistence of chiral symmetry breaking in the metastable phases should lower the bounce action and lengthen the lifetime of those metastable states.

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The mechanism suggests a sharper lattice test than the authors perform: measure the chiral condensate as a function of temperature separately in each $Z_3$ phase and check whether the negative-real phases show a chiral transition temperature measurably above the real phase's $T_c$, not merely a suppressed condensate.
Because the sign flip lives in the $n=1$ winding term, the effect should weaken as the constituent mass grows relative to temperature; a heavy-quark regime ought to show the phase dependence fading, which is a checkable trend rather than a binary.
If chiral symmetry breaking really persists in the metastable $Z_3$ phases of full QCD, then those phases carry a different equation of state, which in principle leaves a signature in the early-universe QCD transition and in heavy-ion fluctuation observables sensitive to the Polyakov loop.
The same winding-sign argument should apply to any theory where a fermion determinant couples to a centre-symmetry phase, so analogous phase-dependent chiral behavior may be worth looking for in QCD-like theories with adjoint or two-index fermions.

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We demonstrate that chiral symmetry restoration in quenched finite temperature QCD depends crucially on the $Z_3$ phase of the Polyakov loop ${\cal P}$. This dependence is a general consequence of the coupling of the chiral order parameter to the Polyakov loop. We construct a model for chiral symmetry breaking and restoration which includes the effect of a nontrivial Polyakov loop by calculating the effective potential for the chiral condensate of a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in a uniform temperature dependent $A_0$ gauge field background. Above the deconfinement temperature there are three possible phases corresponding to the $Z_3$ symmetric phases of the Polyakov loop in the pure gauge theory. In the phase in which ${\rm tr_c}({\cal P})$ is real and positive the first order deconfining transition induces chiral symmetry restoration in agreement with simulation results. In the two phases where $Re[{\rm tr_c}({\cal P})] < 0$ the sign of the leading finite temperature correction to the effective potential is reversed from the normal phase, and chiral symmetry is not restored at the deconfinement transition; this agrees with the recent simulation studies of Chandrasekharan and Christ. In the case of $SU(N)$ a rich set of possibilites emerges. The generality of the mechanism makes it likely to occur in full QCD as well; this will increase the lifetimes of metastable $Z_3$ phases.

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We demonstrate that chiral symmetry restoration in quenched finite temperature QCD depends crucially on the $Z_3$ phase of the Polyakov loop ${\cal P}$. This dependence is a general consequence of the coupling of the chiral order parameter to the Polyakov loop. We construct a model for chiral symmetry breaking and restoration which includes the effect of a nontrivial Polyakov loop by calculating the effective potential for the chiral condensate of a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in a uniform temperature dependent $A_0$ gauge field background. Above the deconfinement temperature there are three possible phases corresponding to the $Z_3$ symmetric phases of the Polyakov loop in the pure gauge theory. In the phase in which ${\rm tr_c}({\cal P})$ is real and positive the first order deconfining transition induces chiral symmetry restoration in agreement with simulation results. In the two phases where $Re[{\rm tr_c}({\cal P})] < 0$ the sign of the leading finite temperature correction to the effective potential is reversed from the normal phase, and chiral symmetry is not restored at the deconfinement transition; this agrees with the recent simulation studies of Chandrasekharan and Christ. In the case of $SU(N)$ a rich set of possibilites emerges. The generality of the mechanism makes it likely to occur in full QCD as well; this will increase the lifetimes of metastable $Z_3$ phases.

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S. Chandrasekharan and N. Christ, to be published in Nucl. Phys. B Proc. Suppl. (1996); preprint available, hep-lat/9509095

View on Pith Pith review arXiv 1996

[2] [2]

T. Hatsuda and T. Kunihiro, Prog. Theor. Phys. Supplement 91, 284 (1987)

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S. P. Klevansky, Rev. Mod. Phys. 64, 649 (1992)

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J. Kogut, S. H. Shenker, J. Shigemitsu, D. K. Sinclair, M. Stone, and H. W. Wyld, Nucl. Phys. B225, 326 (1983)

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