https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3667-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
O(2)-scaling in finite and infinite volume
Physik Department, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse 1, 85747, Garching, Germany
* e-mail: paul.springer@mytum.de
Received:
10
June
2015
Accepted:
6
September
2015
Published online:
1
October
2015
The exact nature of the chiral crossover in QCD is still under investigation. In 
and 
lattice simulations with staggered fermions the expected O(N)-scaling behavior was observed. However, it is still not clear whether this behavior falls into the O(2) or O(4) universality class. To resolve this issue, a careful scaling and finite-size scaling analysis of the lattice results are needed. We use a functional renormalization group to perform a new investigation of the finite-size scaling regions in O(2)- and O(4)-models. We also investigate the behavior of the critical fluctuations by means of the 4th-order Binder cumulant. The finite-size analysis of this quantity provides an additional way for determining the universality class of the chiral transition in lattice QCD.
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