Abstract
We study the finite-temperature phase of a gluon ensemble in a variational approximation to QCD in the Coulomb gauge. We derive and numerically solve the underlying Dyson-Schwinger equations up to one-loop order. Assuming the subcritical solution at , we find a sharp transition in the infrared value of the gluon energy at a critical temperature.
- Received 1 June 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.045006
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