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Elmar Bittner

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Unquenched complex dirac spectra at nonzero chemical potential: two-color QCD lattice data versus matrix model.

We compare analytic predictions of non-Hermitian chiral random matrix theory with the complex Dirac operator eigenvalue spectrum of two-color lattice gauge theory with dynamical fermions at nonzero chemical potential. The Dirac eigenvalues come in complex conjugate pairs, making the action of this theory real and positive for our choice of two staggered flavors. This enables us to use standard Monte Carlo simulations in testing the influence of the chemical potential and quark mass on complex eigenvalues close to the origin. We find excellent agreement between the analytic predictions and our data for two different volumes over a range of chemical potentials below the chiral phase transition. In particular, we detect the effect of unquenching when going to very small quark masses.

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Kertész line in the three-dimensional compact U(1) lattice Higgs model.

The three-dimensional lattice Higgs model with compact U(1) gauge symmetry and unit charge is investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The full model with fluctuating Higgs amplitude is simulated, and both energy as well as topological observables are measured. The data show a Higgs and a confined phase separated by a well-defined phase boundary, which is argued to be caused by proliferating vortices. For fixed gauge coupling, the phase boundary consists of a line of first-order phase transitions at small Higgs self-coupling, ending at a critical point. The phase boundary then continues as a Kertész line across which thermodynamic quantities are non-singular. Symmetry arguments are given to support these findings.

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Approximate calculation of the ground-state energy for Potts spin-glass models.

We consider the q-state Potts spin-glass model, with quenched couplings taking two different values only. As an approximation for this model a proper generalization of the random energy model is derived. Formulas of the resulting diluted generalized random energy model (DGREM) are applied to calculate the ground-state energy for the two-dimensional Potts spin-glass model. The semianalytical results are compared with numerical determinations of the ground-state energy, using multicanonical, random cost, and simulated annealing techniques.

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Phase transition in complex /psi/(4) theory.

Motivated by recent claims for rather unconventional first-order phase transitions in the two- and three-dimensional complex /psi/(4) theory in certain parameter ranges we performed Monte Carlo simulation studies of this model. From our results in two and three dimensions we can unambiguously conclude that there is no evidence for a first-order transition, provided the measure of field fluctuations is treated properly. The origin of the discrepancy is traced by comparative simulations reproducing the erroneous results and by a transfer-matrix study of the one-dimensional case.

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