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Lattice QCD at finite isospin density and/or temperature

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2014-11-17 v1

Abstract

We simulate two-flavour lattice QCD with at a finite chemical potential μI\mu_I for isospin, and finite temperature. At small μI\mu_I, we determine the position of the crossover from hadronic matter to a quark-gluon plasma as a function of μI\mu_I. At larger μI\mu_I we observe the phase transition from the superfluid pion-condensed phase to a quark-gluon plasma, noting its change from second order to first order as μI\mu_I is increased. We also simulate two-flavour lattice QCD at zero quark mass, using an action which includes an additional 4-fermion interaction, at temperatures close to the chiral transition on Nt=8N_t=8 lattices.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0309042,
  title  = {Lattice QCD at finite isospin density and/or temperature},
  author = {J. B. Kogut and D. K. Sinclair},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0309042},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

3 pages LaTex, 3 postscript figures. Parallel talk at Lattice2003(nonzero)