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I study the localisation properties of low Dirac eigenmodes in 2+1 dimensional SU(3) pure gauge theory, both in the low-temperature, confined and chirally-broken phase and in the high-temperature, deconfined and chirally-restored phase, by means of numerical lattice simulations. While these modes are delocalised at low temperature, they become localised at high temperature, up to a critical point in the Dirac spectrum where a BKTtype Anderson transition takes place. All results point to localisation appearing at the deconfinement temperature, and support previous expectations about the close relation between deconfinement, chiral symmetry breaking, and localisation.
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Giordano, M. Localisation in 2+1 dimensional SU(3) pure gauge theory at finite temperature. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 204 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)204
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