Precision study of the continuum SU(3) Yang-Mills theory: how to use parallel tempering to improve on supercritical slowing down for first order phase transitions

S. Borsanyi, Z. Fodor, D. A. Godzieba +3

We perform large scale simulations to characterize the transition in quenched QCD. It is shown by a rigorous finite size scaling that the transition is of first order. After this q…