Instanton fluid

Instanton fluid

In quantum chromodynamics, the instanton fluid model is a model of Wick rotated Euclidean quantum chromodynamics. If we examine the path integral of the action, we find that it has infinitely many local minima, corresponding to varying instanton numbers. It turns out that the dominant contribution to the path integral comes from configurations with consisting of a pool of instantons and antiinstantons. The exponential suppression coming from the increased action is compensated by the increased phase space factor coming from all the instantons. In other words, the "Euclidean" free energy is minimized by a pool of instantons.

We also know that in the presence of an instanton, left-handed quarks of each flavor will be produced and right-handed quarks annihilated. This evidently will have consequences to the chiral dynamics of the theory.

References

* Citation
last = Schafer
first = T.
author-link =
last2 = Shuryak
first2 = E. V.
author2-link =
title = Instantons in QCD
journal = Rev. Mod. Phys.
volume = 70
issue =
pages = 323-426
date =
year = 1998
url = http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9610451
doi =
id =


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