Phase transitions in center-stabilized lattice gauge theories

Abstract

We simulate four-dimensional center-stabilized lattice Yang-Mills theories on R^3 x S^1 with a newly developed pseudo-heatbath algorithm. We analyze the phase structure of such theories, namely the bulk transition and the spontaneous breaking of the center symmetry associated with the compact direction.

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures, talk presented at Lattice 2011 (Theoretical developments), Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California, July 10-16, 2011