Thermodynamics of One-flavour QCD

Abstract

We give a brief introduction on finite temperature phase transitions in lattice QCD including a discussion on the identification of first order transitions. We present a study of the deconfinement phase transition of one-flavour QCD, using the multiboson algorithm on lattice of sizes $8^3$, $12^3$ and $16^3\times 4$. For heavy quarks our results are characteristic of a first order phase transition which gets weaker as the quark mass decreases and ends at a critical value of $\hat{I}º\sim 0.1$ or in physical units at about 1.6 GeV.

LaTeX, 9 pages, 4 figures. Talk given by C. Alexandrou at the Workshop on Nonperturbative Methods in Field Theory, February, 1998, Adelaide, Australia