Absolute Measure of Local Chirality and the Chiral Polarization Scale of the QCD Vacuum

Abstract

The use of the absolute measure of local chirality is championed since it has a uniform distribution for randomly reshuffled chiral components so that any deviations from uniformity in the associated "X-distribution" are directly attributable to QCD-induced dynamics. We observe a transition in the qualitative behavior of this absolute X-distribution of low-lying eigenmodes which, we propose, defines a chiral polarization scale of the QCD vacuum.

Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures, Presented at the 28th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2010), Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy, June 14-19, 2010