Thermal effects on the condensates of chiral order parameters, and , and chiral restoration from lattice QCD

Abstract

We study the quark-gluon mixed condensate g<\bar{q} \sigma G q> using the SU(3)c lattice QCD with the Kogut-Susskind fermion at the quenched level. We perform the first but accurate measurement of the thermal effects on the mixed condensate in lattice QCD at \beta = 6.0 with 16^3 * Nt (Nt=16,12,10,8,6,4), \beta = 6.1 with 20^3 * Nt (Nt=20,12,10,8,6), and \beta = 6.2 with 24^3 * Nt (Nt=24,16,12,10,8). At each temperature, the lattice calculation is carried out with high statistics using more than 100 gauge configurations. In particular, about 1000 gauge configurations are used near the critical temperature T_c. The chiral extrapolation is done from the lattice result with the current-quark mass of m_q = 21,36,52 MeV. While the thermal effects on both of the mixed condensate and the quark condensate are very weak except for the vicinity of T_c, both the condensates suddenly vanish around T_c \simeq 280 MeV, which indicates strong chiral restoration near T_c. To compare the thermal effects on the two condensates, we analyze the ratio m_0^2 = g<\bar{q} \sigma G q>/ <\bar{q}q>, and find that m_0^2 is almost independent of the temperature, even in the very vicinity of T_c. This means that these two different condensates obey the same critical behavior, and this nontrivial similarity between them would impose constraints on the chiral structure of the QCD vacuum near T_c.