Tamás György Kovács (ATOMKI, Debrecen):
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21. November 2019. 15:00 - 16:00
ELTE Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, 0.81 (Ortvay lecture hall)
2019. November 21. 15:00 - 16:00
ELTE Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, 0.81 (Ortvay lecture hall)
Localized quarks in the quark-gluon plasma
Abstract: At high temperature strongly interacting matter undergoes dramatic changes because quarks that are normally confined in hadrons get deconfined and melt into a quark-gluon plasma. Lattice QCD simulations allow us to look at the details of how this transition occurs. A particularly interesting and recently explored phenomenon is that at the transition the lowest quark eigenstates of the Dirac operator become spatially localized. In the talk I will demonstrate how to detect this localization transition in lattice simulations and also discuss its close connection to similar Anderson-type transitions occurring in condensed matter systems. Finally, I will speculate on how quark localization might be related to deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration in the quark-gluon plasma.
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