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Lattice study on finite density QC$_2$D towards zero temperature

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2024-07-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the phase structure and the equation of state (EoS) for dense two-color QCD (QC2_2D) at low temperature (T=40T = 40 MeV, 32432^4 lattice) for the purpose of extending our previous works~\cite{Iida:2019rah, Iida:2022hyy} at T=80T=80 MeV (16416^4 lattice). Indeed, a rich phase structure below the pseudo-critical temperature TcT_c as a function of quark chemical potential μ\mu has been revealed, but finite volume effects in a high-density regime sometimes cause a wrong understanding. Therefore, it is important to investigate the temperature dependence down to zero temperature with large-volume simulations. By performing 32432^4 simulations, we obtain essentially similar results to the previous ones, but we are now allowed to get a fine understanding of the phase structure via the temperature dependence. Most importantly, we find that the hadronic-matter phase, which is composed of thermally excited hadrons, shrinks with decreasing temperature and that the diquark condensate scales as qqμ2\langle qq \rangle \propto \mu^2 in the BCS phase, a property missing at T=80T=80 MeV. From careful analyses, furthermore, we confirm a tentative conclusion that the topological susceptibility is independent of μ\mu. We also show the temperature dependence of the pressure, internal energy, and sound velocity as a function of μ\mu. The pressure increases around the hadronic-superfluid phase transition more rapidly at the lower temperature, while the temperature dependence of the sound velocity is invisible. Breaking of the conformal bound is also confirmed thanks to the smaller statistical error.

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@article{arxiv.2405.20566,
  title  = {Lattice study on finite density QC$_2$D towards zero temperature},
  author = {Kei Iida and Etsuko Itou and Kotaro Murakami and Daiki Suenaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20566},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

29 pages, 11 figures, (v2) minor update, a reference added

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