Interplay between Deconfinement and Chiral Properties

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We study interplay between confinement/deconfinement and chiral properties.

• We derive some analytical relations of the Dirac modes with the confinement quantities, such as the Polyakov loop, its susceptibility and the string tension.
• For the confinement quantities, the low-lying Dirac eigenmodes are found to give negligible contribution, while they are essential for chiral symmetry breaking.
• This indicates no direct, one-to-one correspondence between confinement/deconfinement and chiral properties in QCD.