Quark condensates and the deconfinement transition

Abstract

In this talk we present results on the chiral and the deconfinement transition of quenched QCD from Dyson-Schwinger equations. We determine the ordinary quark condensate signaling the chiral transition and the dual quark condensate signaling the deconfinement transition from the Landau gauge quark propagator evaluated at generalized boundary conditions. We find only slightly different transition temperatures at finite quark masses, whereas the transition temperatures coincide in the chiral limit.

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, Talk given at the Workshop CPOD 2009, June 08 - 12, BNL, USA