LOCAL RESTORATION OF CHIRAL-SYMMETRY AND THE PION CLOUD WITHIN LATTICE QCD

We investigate chiral symmetry breaking locally around a static quark in the framework of lattice QCD by calculating the correlation of the Polyakov loop with the chiral order parameter. We observe a restoratio n of chiral symmetry in the vicinity of the color source with a differ ent mechanism in both phases of full lattice QCD. In the hadronic phas e the chiral condensate is screened by a pion cloud, and therefore the effect is more pronounced for lighter dynamical quarks. Above the dec onfinement phase transition we find that the Polyakov loop is surround ed by a cloud of scalar sigma-mesons, and the local suppression of the chiral condensate is nearly independent of the quark mass.