The analytic structure of the Landau gauge quark propagator from Padé analysis

Abstract

The analytic structure of the 2 flavour full QCD lattice Landau gauge quark propagator is investigated with Padé approximants applied to its vector and scalar form factors. No poles at complex momentum are observed for the propagator. Moreover, there is clear evidence of a pole at real on-axis negative Euclidean momentum, i.e. for Minkowski type of momentum. %, with a positive residuum. This pole occurs at Euclidean momenta $p^2\sim -300$ MeV and it reproduces typical quark mass values used in phenomenological effective quark models. The Padé approximant analysis also gives hints on the presence of a branch cut. Our results also show a clear correlation between the position of this pole, understood as an effective quark mass, and the pion mass that is compatible with PCAC. Slightly differences between the poles for the two quark form factors are observed which can be viewed either as a limitation of the method or as a suggestion that the quark propagator has no spectral representation.

Version accepted for publication in PRD. Minor corrections and references reviewed

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