Contributor info: Dr Alexander Rothkopf

W. A. Horowitz, Alexander Rothkopf

SciPost Phys. Proc. 10, 025 (2022) · published 11 August 2022 | Toggle abstract · pdf

We present first results on finite system size corrections to the equation of state, trace anomaly, and speed of sound for two model systems: 1) free, massless scalar theory and 2) quenched QCD with periodic boundary conditions (PBC). We further present work-in-progress results for quenched QCD with Dirichlet boundary conditions.

Anton K. Cyrol, Jan M. Pawlowski, Alexander Rothkopf, Nicolas Wink

SciPost Phys. 5, 065 (2018) · published 20 December 2018 | Toggle abstract · pdf

We reconstruct the gluon spectral function in Landau gauge QCD from numerical data for the gluon propagator. The reconstruction relies on two novel ingredients: Firstly we derive analytically the low frequency asymptotics of the spectral function. Secondly we construct a functional basis from a careful consideration of the analytic properties of the gluon propagator in Landau gauge. This allows us to reliably capture the non-perturbative regime of the gluon spectrum. We also compare different reconstruction methods and discuss the respective systematic errors.