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Lectures on Chiral Disorder in QCD

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QCD Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter

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I explain the concept that light quarks diffuse in the QCD vacuum following the spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry. I exploit the striking analogy with disordered electrons in metals, identifying, among others, the universal regime described by random matrix theory, diffusive regime described by chiral perturbation theory and the crossover between these two domains.

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Nowak, M.A. (2002). Lectures on Chiral Disorder in QCD. In: Blaizot, JP., Iancu, E. (eds) QCD Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter. NATO Science Series, vol 87. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0267-7_14

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