scholarly journals Dark confinement-deconfinement phase transition: a roadmap from Polyakov loop models to gravitational waves

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaofeng Kang ◽  
Jiang Zhu ◽  
Shinya Matsuzaki
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Polyakov Loop ◽  
Thermodynamic Quantities ◽  
Point Interactions ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
First Order ◽  
Deconfinement Phase Transition

Abstract We explore the confinement-deconfinement phase transition (PT) of the first order (FO) arising in SU(N) pure Yang-Mills theory, based on Polyakov loop models (PLMs), in light of the induced gravitational wave (GW) spectra. We demonstrate that the PLMs with the Haar measure term, involving models successful in QCD with N = 3, are potentially incompatible with the large N scaling for the thermodynamic quantities and the latent heat at around the criticality of the FOPT reported from the lattice simulations. We then propose a couple of models of polynomial form, which we call the 4-6 PLM (with four- and six-point interactions among the basic PL fields which have center charge 1) and 4-8 PLM (with four- and eight-point interactions), and discuss how such models can naturally arise in the presence of a heavy PL with charge 2. We show that those models give the consistent thermodynamic and large N properties at around the criticality. The predicted GW spectra are shown to have high enough sensitivity to be probed in the future prospected interferometers such as BBO and DECIGO.

WETTING OF HOT GLUONS

1992 ◽  
Vol 03 (05) ◽  
pp. 939-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
U.-J. WIESE
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Bubble Nucleation ◽  
Polyakov Loop ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Complete Wetting ◽  
First Order ◽  
Pure Gauge Theory ◽  
Deconfinement Phase Transition

In the SU(3) pure gauge theory the high temperature deconfinement phase transition is first order. At the transition the confined phase coexists with three distinct deconfined phases. The interfaces separating the various phases show universal critical behavior when the confined phase completely wets the deconfined-deconfined interfaces. The critical exponents of complete wetting are derived from an interface solution of a Z(3) symmetric effective theory for the Polyakov loop. When complete wetting occurs in the pure glue theory the deconfinement transition proceeds via domain wall splitting. When quarks are present wetting disappears and the standard bubble nucleation scenario applies.

scholarly journals Latent heat and pressure gap at the first order deconfining phase transition of SU(3) Yang-Mills theory using the small flow-time expansion method

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mizuki Shirogane ◽  
Shinji Ejiri ◽  
Ryo Iwami ◽  
Kazuyuki Kanaya ◽  
Masakiyo Kitazawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Energy Density ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Flow Time ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
First Order ◽  
Pressure Gap ◽  
Small Flow ◽  
Time Expansion ◽  
The Continuum

Abstract We study latent heat and pressure gap between the hot and cold phases at the first order deconfining phase transition temperature of the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory. Performing simulations on lattices with various spatial volumes and lattice spacings, we calculate the gaps of the energy density and pressure using the small flow time expansion (SFtX) method. We find that the latent heat Δ ε in the continuum limit is Δ ε /T4 = 1.117 ± 0.040 for the aspect ratio Ns/Nt = 8 and 1.349 ± 0.038 for Ns/Nt = 6 at the transition temperature T = T c. We also confirm that the pressure gap is consistent with zero, as expected from the dynamical balance of two phases at Tc. From hysteresis curves of the energy density near Tc, we show that the energy density in the (metastable) deconfined phase is sensitive to the spatial volume, while that in the confined phase is insensitive. Furthermore, we examine the effect of alternative procedures in the SFtX method — the order of the continuum and the vanishing flow time extrapolations, and also the renormalization scale and higher order corrections in the matching coefficients. We confirm that the final results are all well consistent with each other for these alternatives.

scholarly journals Correlated gravitational wave and microlensing signals of macroscopic dark matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Marfatia ◽  
Po-Yan Tseng
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Order Phase Transition ◽  
Effective Potential ◽  
False Vacuum ◽  
First Order ◽  
First Order Phase Transition ◽  
First Order Phase

Abstract Fermion dark matter particles can aggregate to form extended dark matter structures via a first-order phase transition in which the particles get trapped in the false vacuum. We study Fermi balls created in a phase transition induced by a generic quartic thermal effective potential. We show that for Fermi balls of mass, 3 × 10−12M⊙ ≲ MFB ≲ 10−5M⊙, correlated observations of gravitational waves produced during the phase transition (at SKA/THEIA/μAres), and gravitational microlensing caused by Fermi balls (at Subaru-HSC), can be made.

scholarly journals Gravitational waves from dark Yang-Mills sectors

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Halverson ◽  
Cody Long ◽  
Anindita Maiti ◽  
Brent Nelson ◽  
Gustavo Salinas
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Gluon Plasma ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Gauge Groups ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
First Order ◽  
First Order Phase Transition ◽  
First Order Phase ◽  
The Universe

Abstract Dark Yang-Mills sectors, which are ubiquitous in the string landscape, may be reheated above their critical temperature and subsequently go through a confining first-order phase transition that produces stochastic gravitational waves in the early universe. Taking into account constraints from lattice and from Yang-Mills (center and Weyl) symmetries, we use a phenomenological model to construct an effective potential of the semi quark-gluon plasma phase, from which we compute the gravitational wave signal produced during confinement for numerous gauge groups. The signal is maximized when the dark sector dominates the energy density of the universe at the time of the phase transition. In that case, we find that it is within reach of the next-to-next generation of experiments (BBO, DECIGO) for a range of dark confinement scales near the weak scale.

scholarly journals Phase transitions in the early universe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hindmarsh ◽  
Marvin Lüben ◽  
Johannes Lumma ◽  
Martin Pauly
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Order Approximation ◽  
First Order ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
First Order Phase

These lecture notes are based on a course given by Mark Hindmarsh at the 24th Saalburg Summer School 2018 and written up by Marvin Lüben, Johannes Lumma and Martin Pauly. The aim is to provide the necessary basics to understand first-order phase transitions in the early universe, to outline how they leave imprints in gravitational waves, and advertise how those gravitational waves could be detected in the future. A first-order phase transition at the electroweak scale is a prediction of many theories beyond the Standard Model, and is also motivated as an ingredient of some theories attempting to provide an explanation for the matter-antimatter asymmetry in our Universe. Starting from bosonic and fermionic statistics, we derive Boltzmann's equation and generalise to a fluid of particles with field dependent mass. We introduce the thermal effective potential for the field in its lowest order approximation, discuss the transition to the Higgs phase in the Standard Model and beyond, and compute the probability for the field to cross a potential barrier. After these preliminaries, we provide a hydrodynamical description of first-order phase transitions as it is appropriate for describing the early Universe. We thereby discuss the key quantities characterising a phase transition, and how they are imprinted in the gravitational wave power spectrum that might be detectable by the space-based gravitational wave detector LISA in the 2030s.

scholarly journals Gravitational wave signals of dark matter freeze-out

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Marfatia ◽  
Po-Yan Tseng
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Order Phase Transition ◽  
First Order ◽  
Stochastic Background ◽  
First Order Phase Transition ◽  
Relic Abundance ◽  
First Order Phase ◽  
Freeze Out

Abstract We study the stochastic background of gravitational waves which accompany the sudden freeze-out of dark matter triggered by a cosmological first order phase transition that endows dark matter with mass. We consider models that produce the measured dark matter relic abundance via (1) bubble filtering, and (2) inflation and reheating, and show that gravitational waves from these mechanisms are detectable at future interferometers.

scholarly journals Gluodynamics and deconfinement phase transition under rotation from holography

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xun Chen ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Danning Li ◽  
Defu Hou ◽  
Mei Huang
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Angular Velocity ◽  
Chemical Potential ◽  
Entropy Density ◽  
Thermodynamic Quantities ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Trace Anomaly ◽  
Holographic Qcd ◽  
Deconfinement Phase Transition ◽  
Small Chemical

Abstract We investigate rotating effect on deconfinement phase transition in an Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) model in bottom-up holographic QCD approach. By constructing a rotating black hole, which is supposed to be dual to rotating strongly coupled nuclear matter, we investigate the thermodynamic quantities, including entropy density, pressure, energy density, trace anomaly, sound speed and specific heat for both pure gluon system and two-flavor system under rotation. It is shown that those thermodynamic quantities would be enhanced by large angular velocity. Also, we extract the information of phase transition from those thermodynamic quantities, as well as the order parameter of deconfinement phase transition, i.e. the loop operators. It is shown that, in the T − ω plane, for two-flavor case with small chemical potential, the phase transition is always crossover. The transition temperature decreases slowly with angular velocity and chemical potential. For pure gluon system with zero chemical potential, the phase transition is always first order, while at finite chemical potential a critical end point (CEP) will present in the T − ω plane.

scholarly journals The gravitational-wave physics

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 687-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong-Gen Cai ◽  
Zhoujian Cao ◽  
Zong-Kuan Guo ◽  
Shao-Jiang Wang ◽  
Tao Yang
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Laser Interferometer ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Fundamental Physics ◽  
First Order ◽  
Compact Binary ◽  
First Order Phase Transition ◽  
First Order Phase ◽  
The Universe

Abstract The direct detection of gravitational wave by Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory indicates the coming of the era of gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave cosmology. It is expected that more and more gravitational-wave events will be detected by currently existing and planned gravitational-wave detectors. The gravitational waves open a new window to explore the Universe and various mysteries will be disclosed through the gravitational-wave detection, combined with other cosmological probes. The gravitational-wave physics is not only related to gravitation theory, but also is closely tied to fundamental physics, cosmology and astrophysics. In this review article, three kinds of sources of gravitational waves and relevant physics will be discussed, namely gravitational waves produced during the inflation and preheating phases of the Universe, the gravitational waves produced during the first-order phase transition as the Universe cools down and the gravitational waves from the three phases: inspiral, merger and ringdown of a compact binary system, respectively. We will also discuss the gravitational waves as a standard siren to explore the evolution of the Universe.

scholarly journals Modifications to Plane Gravitational Waves from Minimal Lorentz Violation

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Xu
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Lorentz Invariance ◽  
Lorentz Violation ◽  
First Order ◽  
Test Particles ◽  
Violation Of Lorentz Invariance ◽  
Plane Gravitational Waves ◽  
Wave Modes

General Relativity predicts two modes for plane gravitational waves. When a tiny violation of Lorentz invariance occurs, the two gravitational wave modes are modified. We use perturbation theory to study the detailed form of the modifications to the two gravitational wave modes from the minimal Lorentz-violation coupling. The perturbation solution for the metric fluctuation up to the first order in Lorentz violation is discussed. Then, we investigate the motions of test particles under the influence of the plane gravitational waves with Lorentz violation. First-order deviations from the usual motions are found.

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