@inproceedings{140db3e48db546c19a66529e1a181a4d,
title = "QCD as a mesoscopic system",
abstract = "We discuss the statistical properties of the smallest eigenvalues of the QCD Dirac operator both at zero and at nonzero chemical potential. We show that they are given by a Random Matrix Model with the global symmetries of QCD. Our work is motivated by the realization that lattice QCD with today's computational resources is a disordered mesoscopic system with a physical scale, the mass of the lightest quark, that is of the order of the smallest nonzero Dirac eigenvalue. Lattice QCD results for the QCD Dirac spectrum are discussed and recent progress on QCD at nonzero chemical potential is reviewed.",
keywords = "Dirac Spectrum, QCD, Random Matrix Theory",
author = "Jacobus Verbaarschot",
year = "2005",
month = jul,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1063/1.1996891",
language = "English",
isbn = "0735402639",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "270--292",
booktitle = "NUCLEI AND MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS",
note = "NUCLEI AND MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS: Workshop on Nuclei and Mesoscopic Physics, WNMP 2004 ; Conference date: 23-10-2004 Through 26-10-2004",
}