Equation of state near the first order phase transition point of SU(3) gauge theory using gradient flow

Abstract

We study energy gap (latent heat) between the hot and cold phases at the first order phase transition point of the SU(3) gauge theory. Performing simulations on lattices with various spatial volumes and lattice spacings, we calculate the energy gap by a method using the Yang-Mills gradient flow and compare it with that by the conventional derivative method.

Comments: 7 pages, 10 figures, talk presented at the 36th Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2018)