arXiv 2212.033852022-12-11hep-lathep-ph

QCD topology with electromagnetic fields and the axion-photon coupling

Bastian Brandt, Francesca Cuteri, Gergely Endrődi, José Javier Hernández Hernández, Gergely Markó

备注：: 10 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 8th-13th August 2022, Bonn, Germany

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The introduction of non-orthogonal electric and magnetic fields in the QCD vacuum enhances the weight of topological sectors with a nonzero topological charge. For weak fields, there is a linear response for the expectation value of the topological charge. We study this linear response and relate it to the QCD correction to the axion-photon coupling. We also analyse the magnetic field dependence of the topological susceptibility for a range of temperatures around $T_c$. In this work we use lattice simulations with improved staggered quarks at physical masses, including background magnetic and (imaginary) electric fields.

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