Em. Ilgenfritz et al., TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURES AROUND THE THERMAL PHASE-TRANSITION OF PURE SU(3) GAUGE-THEORY STUDIED ON A QUADRICS Q16, Nuclear physics. B, 1995, pp. 496-498
The temperature dependence of the topological susceptibility around an
d above the deconfining phase transition is studied both by cooling an
d the field theoretic method. The susceptibility has a peak at T simil
ar or equal to 0.83T(c) and drops steeply at T-c. In the cooled config
urations a characteristic anisotropy of the correlation function of to
pological charge is detected in the range T approximate to (1.2)T-c.