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Lee--Yang edge singularities in Nonlocal Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model

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Pith's one-line read At Lee–Yang edges, the Nambu and Wigner solutions of the nonlocal NJL gap equation always coalesce, and extrapolating their trajectory recovers the QCD critical endpoint within 0.1 MeV.

desk verdict A competent model calculation whose core LYE result is sound but whose abstract oversells the CEP-extrapolation method. read the letter →

arxiv 2509.02975 v1 pith:TH7GGKER submitted 2025-09-03 hep-ph hep-thnucl-th

Zong-shuai Zhang , Yi Lu , Yu-xin Liu This is my paper
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keywords Lee–YangedgesingularitiesnonlocalNambu–Jona-LasiniomodelQCDphasediagramcriticalendpointcomplexchemicalpotentialchiralsusceptibilityexponent
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The reading

This paper studies the chiral phase structure of two-flavor QCD with the nonlocal Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model extended to complex chemical potential, treating the condensate as a complex order parameter. Its central claim is that Lee–Yang edge singularities are exactly the points where the positive Nambu solution and the Wigner solution of the gap equation coalesce, so the second derivative of the thermodynamic potential vanishes and the chiral susceptibility diverges. The paper proves the coalescence using holomorphy and the implicit function theorem, then uses it to map the LYE trajectory in the complex chemical potential plane, extract the critical exponent βδ = 1.494(1), and show that extrapolating the trajectory from small imaginary chemical potential locates the critical end point within 0.1 MeV. This matters because lattice QCD cannot reach large real chemical potential, and scaling-based extrapolation from accessible regions offers a complementary route to the critical point.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing identity is the coalescence condition at the Lee–Yang edge: two distinct stationary branches of the gap equation F(σ;T,μ)=∂Ω/∂σ=0 meet at (σl,Tl,μl), so by the holomorphic implicit function theorem ∂F/∂σ=0, i.e. ∂²Ω/∂σ²=0. The paper's tool for locating the edges is the shape classification of the effective potential surface in the complex σ plane: because Ω is analytic in σ, the real part alone fixes the topology, and 'shape-shifting lines' where the surface changes form intersect at CEPs and LYEs. The scaling formula μLY(T)−μCEP = −c1(T−TCEP)+ic2(T−TCEP)^{βδ} then carries the quantitative analysis.

What would settle it

Take the nonlocal model with the alternative running-coupling form factor and numerically follow the two complex stationary branches across the claimed LYE at T≈91.29 MeV, μR≈185.57 MeV, μI/πT=0.001: if the branches pass each other without meeting, or Re(χT) remains finite as the point is approached, the coalescence condition ∂²Ω/∂σ²=0 fails.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On the authors' terms, the discovery is a structural characterization of Lee–Yang edge singularities in a nonlocal NJL model: at every LYE, including the critical end point, the positive Nambu phase and the Wigner phase coalesce in the complex order-parameter plane. Consequently ∂²Ω/∂σ²=0 at those points, by the implicit function theorem, and the chiral susceptibility diverges. The paper locates the singularities as intersections of 'shape-shifting lines' that separate distinct topologies of the effective potential surface, and shows the LYE trajectory obeys μLY−μCEP = −c1(T−TCEP)+i c2(T−TCEP)^{βδ}, with βδ=1.494(1) in the critical region. With βδ fixed to 1.5, extrapolation from LYEs at sma

Load-bearing premise

The whole argument leans on the assumption that the thermodynamic potential stays holomorphic in the complexified condensate, temperature, and chemical potential; if the Matsubara sum or form factor creates a branch cut, the coalescence points and scaling fits could shift.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The chiral susceptibility diverges not only at the CEP but at every Lee–Yang edge in the complex chemical potential plane, making complex-μ points identifiable through singular behavior.
  • The critical exponent βδ extracted from the LYE trajectory is 1.494(1), consistent with mean-field values β=1/2, δ=3, confirming mean-field universality for this model.
  • The position of the CEP can be recovered to within 0.1 MeV by fitting the LYE trajectory, provided one uses data within ΔT<4 MeV, ΔμR<10 MeV and Δ(μI/πT)<0.001.
  • The shape-classification criterion separates crossover from first-order transitions without needing to minimize a real potential, since complex stationary points are identified via Re(Ω) and the Cauchy–Riemann conditions.
  • The LYE-based extrapolation offers a complementary method to lattice QCD, whose direct simulations at real chemical potential are blocked by the sign problem.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the coalescence criterion is generic, it suggests that in other effective models or in lattice data, the Lee–Yang edge may be located simply by following the merging of the two lowest stationary branches of the effective action, without computing zeros of the full partition function.
  • The same scaling trajectory could be used to design a lattice-driven estimate of the CEP: measure the LYE position at small imaginary chemical potential via Padé or multi-point rational approximations and extrapolate with βδ=1.5; the paper's result indicates the systematic error from the scaling fit should stay small in that window.
  • Testing the alternative running-coupling form factor would show whether the 0.1-MeV precision depends on the exponential form factor's analytic behavior, a non-universal ingredient of the model.
  • The method may transfer to QCD-like theories and to other order parameters: any thermodynamic potential whose stationary branches coalesce in the complex plane will show the same divergence structure and scaling.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 4 minor

Summary. The manuscript studies the chiral phase structure of a two-flavor nonlocal Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model at finite temperature and complex chemical potential. The authors compute the mean-field thermodynamic potential, solve the gap equation, locate a critical end point (CEP) at (T,mu)=(90.10,188.73) MeV, and propose a classification of the real part of the complex potential to identify Lee–Yang edge singularities (LYEs). Their main formal claim is that at a LYE the positive Nambu and Wigner solutions coalesce, so that d^2 Omega/dsigma^2=0 and the susceptibility diverges. They extract a critical exponent beta_delta=1.494(1) from scaling fits of the LYE trajectory and argue that extrapolating this trajectory recovers the CEP to within 0.1 MeV, even at small real chemical potential. The phase-diagram curvature kappa=0.01708(2) is also reported.

Significance. If the claims hold, the paper provides a useful model-level demonstration that LYE trajectories and their scaling can be obtained in a nonlocal NJL framework, and it highlights a possible strategy for locating the CEP from complex-chemical-potential data. The calculations are explicit, the quoted curvature is consistent with earlier 2-flavor results, and the extracted beta_delta is consistent with the mean-field expectation beta*delta=1.5. The formal coalescence argument is a strength. However, the advertised practical message—that the 0.1-MeV recovery works at small real chemical potential—is not supported by the manuscript's own fitting table, and the analyticity assumption underpinning the proof and the LYE-identification procedure is not verified. These issues affect the central motivation and should be fixed before publication.

major comments (4)
  1. [Abstract / Sec. III.B / Table I] The advertised practical result that LYE extrapolation determines the CEP "even at a small real chemical potential" is contradicted by Table I. The fits achieving <0.1 MeV accuracy use Intervals 1–2, i.e. Delta T < 4.09 MeV and Delta mu_R < 10.80 MeV around the CEP, with mu_R/T ~ 2.1 and Delta(mu_I/pi T) < 0.006. When the fitting region extends to Delta mu_R ~ 114 MeV and hence to noticeably smaller mu_R/T (Interval 4), the extrapolated CEP is (91.64, 188.50) MeV with R^2=0.996, off by about 1.5 MeV in T. The abstract and Sec. IV must be qualified: high precision requires LYE data very close to the CEP, not small real chemical potential.
  2. [Sec. III.B / Eq. (III.5)] The proof that d^2 Omega/dsigma^2=0 at LYEs and the stationary-point identification via Eq. (III.4) rest on the assertion that Omega is holomorphic in (sigma,T,mu) after complexification. For the nonlocal NJL model with a Matsubara sum and the exponential form factor C(p^2)=exp(-p^2/Lambda^2), this is not demonstrated; logarithms of p^2+M^2(p^2) and the infinite sum could introduce non-analyticities at complex momenta. Since the inverse-function argument in Eqs. (III.8)–(III.13) requires holomorphicity, the authors should either provide a numerical Cauchy–Riemann check or an explicit analytic-continuation argument, or clearly state this assumption as a limitation with possible consequences for the LYE trajectories.
  3. [Sec. III.B / Figs. 8–9, 11] The LYE points and "shape-shifting lines" are identified by visual classification of Re Omega (Figs. 8–9) and by inspection of solution trajectories (Fig. 11). No quantitative criterion is specified for deciding when a potential shape changes or when two branches bifurcate, and no uncertainties are reported for the LYE coordinates used in the fits. Since Table I quotes beta_delta=1.494(1) and R^2 values at the 10^-6 level, the method should be made reproducible—for example by solving dOmega/dsigma=0 and detecting double roots—and the fits should report the number of points, chi^2/dof, and propagated uncertainties.
  4. [Sec. III.B / Sec. IV] The CEP "recovered" by extrapolation is not an independent prediction. The CEP is first located on the real-mu axis from the spinodal lines, and the LYE trajectory is defined as the set of points where the same gap-equation branches coalesce; hence the CEP is by construction the real-axis point of that set. The fits in Intervals 1–2, which lie within Delta T < 4 MeV and Delta mu_R < 10 MeV of the CEP, therefore mainly test the self-consistency of Eq. (III.15) with the known CEP rather than the ability to extrapolate from small real chemical potential. This distinction should be stated explicitly in the paper.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Table I] It is not immediately clear which columns come from unconstrained fits (beta_delta, R^2) and which come from fits with beta_delta fixed to 1.5 (fitCEP). Please state this explicitly in the caption or text.
  2. [Fig. 13] The color axis labelled "T [MeV]" is not defined in the caption. The figure mixes T, mu_R, and mu_I/(pi T); indicate how T, mu_R, and the color scale are related.
  3. [Throughout] The manuscript uses both "LYES" and "LYEs" for the plural of Lee–Yang edge singularity. Please choose one convention and use it consistently.
  4. [References] Reference [31] (JHEP 07, 041) lacks the publication year; it should read JHEP 07, 041 (2016). Also check Eq. (III.15) for consistent use of T_CEP notation.

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No significant circularity: the main results are self-contained numerical computations; the scaling ansatz is independently supported and the CEP 'recovery' is a consistency test, not a circular prediction.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is not circular. The LYE locations are obtained numerically as intersections of the Nambu and Wigner solution branches in the complex σ plane, and the proof that ∂²Ω/∂σ²=0 at such points follows from the implicit function theorem applied to the holomorphic function F=∂Ω/∂σ; it does not assume the conclusion. The scaling form Eq.(III.15) is attributed to Refs. [24,27,33]; although Ref. [24] is the authors' own DSE paper, the same scaling behavior is independently documented in Refs. [27,33], so the self-citation is not load-bearing. The extraction of βδ≈1.49 and the 'recovery' of the CEP within 0.1 MeV are fits to the model's own LYE data compared with the directly computed CEP of Eq.(III.2); this is a self-consistency check, not a prediction from independent data, and it is not circular because the CEP value used for comparison is computed directly from the real-axis potential. The paper itself notes that the extrapolation becomes less reliable at smaller μ_R/T (Table I, Intervals 3–4), which is a limitation of the advertised practical method rather than a circularity. The assumption of holomorphy of Ω is a stated physical/mathematical assumption, not a circular step.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central calculation rests on the nonlocal NJL model with a Gaussian form factor, a parameter set fitted in earlier work [53,54], an explicitly assumed holomorphicity of the complexified potential, and the Ising/mean-field scaling form for LYE trajectories. The paper contributes the numerical solution of the resulting gap equation, not the derivation of these inputs. The 'shape-shifting lines' are a new classification scheme but do not constitute a new physical entity.

free parameters (3)
  • Critical exponent beta_delta = 1.494(1) in the narrowest interval (Delta T ~ 1 MeV)
    Fitted to the Lee-Yang edge trajectory using the scaling form Eq. (III.15); varies between 1.425(4) and 1.50(5) depending on the fitting interval, so the central value is interval-dependent.
  • Scaling coefficients c1 and c2 = not quoted
    Real fitting coefficients in Eq. (III.15) used to describe the LYE trajectory near the CEP; their values are not reported but are fitted to the model data.
  • Fitting interval thresholds = Delta T < 4 MeV, Delta mu_R < 10 MeV, Delta(mu_I/pi T) < 0.001
    Chosen post hoc to achieve R^2 > 0.99999; the extrapolation error grows outside this range, making the 'high precision' claim conditional.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The nonlocal NJL action with Gaussian form factor C(p^2) = exp(-p^2/Lambda^2) approximates QCD's low-energy dynamics.
    Adopted in Sec. II; the form factor is a model input, not derived.
  • domain assumption Parameter set G Lambda^2 = 20.65, m_q = 5.74 MeV, Lambda = 752 MeV from Refs. [53,54] is valid.
    Used in Sec. II.C to fix the model; the paper does not re-fit or justify these values.
  • ad hoc to paper The thermodynamic potential is holomorphic in (sigma, T, mu) after complexification.
    Stated in Sec. III.B before the proof of Eq. (III.5); the proof and the shape classification depend on it.
  • domain assumption The scaling form Eq. (III.15) for LYE trajectories near the CEP, from Ising/mean-field universality, is applicable.
    Taken from Refs. [24,27,33]; used for both the beta_delta extraction and the CEP extrapolation test.
  • domain assumption Mean-field approximation with stationary points of the effective potential suffices; fluctuations are neglected.
    Standard in NJL-type models; mentioned in Sec. II.B.

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We investigate the QCD phase diagram and the associated Lee--Yang edge singularities using the two-flavor nonlocal Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model extended to complex chemical potential. There exists a strong correlation between the chiral phase transition and the structure of the effective potential in the complex order parameter plane, serving as a criterion to differentiate crossover from first-order transitions. Typically, the Lee--Yang edge singularities can be understood as a generalization of the critical end-point (CEP) between crossover and first-order transitions, where the positive Nambu phase and the Wigner phase coalesce. We further analyze the scaling behavior near the CEP by extracting the critical exponent associated with the Lee--Yang singularities. Additionally, we confirm that the extrapolation of the Lee--Yang edge singularity trajectories provides an effective method of determining the CEP location, even at a small real chemical potential. This provides a viable method for exploring regions of the QCD phase diagram that remain inaccessible to lattice QCD.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1: Dyson–Schwinger equation for the quark [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2: Thermodynamic potential Ω as a function of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. shows the solutions of the gap equation as a function of µ in cases of T = 80 MeV and T = 100 MeV. 0 100 200 300 [MeV] 0 100 200 300 400 [M e V] (a)T=80MeV 0 100 200 300 [MeV] 0 100 200 300 400 [M e V] (b)T=100MeV FIG. 3: Solutions of the gap equation σ(µ) at two different temperatures. Solutions to the gap equation typically emerge or van￾ish in pairs, consisting of a local maximum ∂ 2Ω ∂σ2 < 0  and a local minimu… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4: Thermal susceptibility [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6: The obtained phase diagram in the ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7: Thermodynamic potential Ω in the complex [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8: Solutions of the gap equation in the complex [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_8.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10: Solutions of the gap equation in the complex [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: FIG. 11: Trajectories of the gap equation solutions at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: FIG. 12: Temperature dependence of the real part of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: FIG. 13: Trajectory of Lee–Yang edge singularities [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: FIG. 14: Scaling behavior of the LYEs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: FIG. 15: Determining the CEP via extrapolation of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_15.png]

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