TY - JOUR AB - This letter is devoted to the investigation of the point-point Polyakov loop correlators in SU (2) lattice gauge theory on 4Ns3 lattices with Ns=8, 12, 18 and 26. We use an analytic expression for point-point correlators provided by the transfer matrix formalism to study the temperature dependence of the mass gap [mu]m.g. and the corresponding matrix element [nu] near the critical point in a finite volume. The finite-size scaling analysis of the values [mu]m.g.([beta];Ns) obtained gives the possibility to extract the critical value [beta]c, the critical exponent [nu] and the surface tension [alpha]s.t. DA - 1992 DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(92)90662-N LA - eng IS - 3-4 M2 - 415 PY - 1992 SN - 0370-2693 SP - 415-422 T2 - Physics Letters, B TI - Mass gap and finite-size effects in finite temperature SU (2) lattice gauge theory UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-17762597 Y2 - 2024-11-21T22:17:06 ER -