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We study the problems of deconfinement, chiral symmetry restoration and localisation of the low Dirac eigenmodes in a toy model of QCD, namely unimproved staggered fermions on lattices of temporal extension N T = 4. This model displays a genuine deconfining and chirally-restoring first-order phase transition at some critical value of the gauge coupling. Our results indicate that the onset of localisation of the lowest Dirac eigenmodes takes place at the same critical coupling where the system undergoes the first-order phase transition. This provides further evidence of the close relation between deconfinement, chiral symmetry restoration and localisation of the low modes of the Dirac operator on the lattice.
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Giordano, M., Katz, S.D., Kovács, T.G. et al. Deconfinement, chiral transition and localisation in a QCD-like model. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 55 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2017)055
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