Scaling Analysis of Chiral Phase Transition for Two Flavors of Kogut-Susskind Quarks

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Report is made of a systematic scaling study of the finite-temperature chiral phase transition of two-flavor QCD with the Kogut-Susskind quark action based on simulations on L³×4 (L=8, 12 and 16) lattices at the quark mass of mq=0.075, 0.0375, 0.02 and 0.01. Our finite-size data show that a phase transition is absent for mq≥ 0.02, and quite likely also at mq=0.01. The scaling behavior of susceptibilities as a function of mq is consistent with a second-order transition at mq=0. However, the exponents deviate from the O(2) or O(4) values theoretically expected.