$\xi /{\xi }_{2nd}$ ratio as a tool to refine Effective Polyakov Loop models

Abstract

Effective Polyakov line actions are a powerful tool to study the finite temperature behaviour of lattice gauge theories. They are much simpler to simulate than the original lattice model and are affected by a milder sign problem, but it is not clear to which extent they really capture the rich spectrum of the original theories. We propose here a simple way to address this issue based on the so called second moment correlation length ${\xi }_{2nd}$. The ratio $\xi /{\xi }_{2nd}$ between the exponential correlation length and the second moment one is equal to 1 if only a single mass is present in the spectrum, and it becomes larger and larger as the complexity of the spectrum increases. Since both $\xi$ and ${\xi }_{2nd}$ are easy to measure on the lattice, this is a cheap and efficient way to keep track of the spectrum of the theory. As an example of the information one can obtain with this tool we study the behaviour of $\xi /{\xi }_{2nd}$ in the confining phase of the ($D=3+1$) $\mathrm{SU}(2)$ gauge theory and show that it is compatible with 1 near the deconfinement transition, but it increases dramatically as the temperature decreases. We also show that this increase can be well understood in the framework of an effective string description of the Polyakov loop correlator. This non-trivial behaviour should be reproduced by the Polyakov loop effective action; thus, it represents a stringent and challenging test of existing proposals and it may be used to fine-tune the couplings and to identify the range of validity of the approximations involved in their construction.

arXiv comment1+17 pages, 3 pdf figures; v2: 1+17 pages, 3 pdf figures: discussion in section 1,2 and 5 expanded, misprints corrected; matches journal version

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