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Analyticity and the phase diagram of QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Some consequences of the analyticity of the free energy (pressure) of QCD at finite chemical potential are deduced. These include a method for numerical exploration of the full phase diagram by a novel use of simulations at imaginary chemical potential to extract Yang-Lee zeroes of the grand-canonical partition function. We make use of, and comment on, CPT symmetries, positivity of non-linear susceptibilities and the finiteness of screening lengths. We also comment on the structure of zeroes expected for the usual picture of the phases of QCD, following a discussion of the physics of imaginary chemical potential.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0307007,
  title  = {Analyticity and the phase diagram of QCD},
  author = {Sourendu Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0307007},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, 2 figures. Extended discussion of some points