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A new method to study lattice QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-07-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Due to the sign problem, it is exponentially difficult to study QCD on the lattice at finite chemical potential. We propose a method --an overlap improving multi-parameter reweighting technique-- to alleviate this problem. We apply this method and give the phase diagram of four-flavor QCD obtained on lattices 4^4 and 4\cdot6^3. Our results are based on {\cal{O}}(10^3-10^4) configurations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0104001,
  title  = {A new method to study lattice QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential},
  author = {Z. Fodor and S. D. Katz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0104001},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

minor changes, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B