Quenched divergences in the deconfined phase of SU(2) gauge theory - art. no. 117502

The Spectrum of the overlap Dirac operator in the deconfined phase of quenc hed gauge theory is known to have three parts: exact zeros arising from top ology, small nonzero eigenvalues that result in a nonzero chiral condensate , and the dense bulk of the spectrum, which is separated from the small eig envalues by a gap. In this paper, we focus on the,mail nonzero eigenvalues in an SU(2) gauge field background at beta = 2.4 and N-T = 4. This low-lyin g spectrum is computed on four different Spatial lattices (12(3), 14(3), 16 (3), and 18(3)). As the volume increases, the small eigenvalues become incr easing concentrated near zero in such a way as to strongly suggest that the infinite volume condensate diverges.