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LQCD at non zero isospin chemical potential

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-06-12 v1

Abstract

Systems of non-zero isospin chemical potential are studied from a canonical approach by computing correlation functions with the quantum numbers of Nπ+N \pi^+'s (CNπC_{N \pi}). In order to reduce the number of contractions required in calculating CNπC_{N \pi} for a large NN in the Wick's theorem, we constructed a few new algorithms. With these new algorithms, systems with isospin charge up to 72 are investigated on three anisotropic gauge ensembles with a pion mass of 390MeV390 \rm{MeV}, and with lattice spatial extents L2.0,2.5,3.0fmL \sim {2.0, 2.5, 3.0} \rm{fm}. The largest isospin density of ρI9fm3\rho_I \approx 9 \rm{fm}^{-3} is achieved in the smallest volume, and the QCD phase diagram is investigated at a fixed low temperature at varying isospin chemical potentials, mπμI4.5mπm_{\pi} \le \mu_I \le 4.5 m_{\pi}. By investigating the behaviour of the extracted energy density of the system at different isospin chemical potentials, we numerically identified the conjectured transition to a Bose-Einstein condensation state at μImπ\mu_I \ge m_{\pi}.

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@article{arxiv.1211.0481,
  title  = {LQCD at non zero isospin chemical potential},
  author = {Zhifeng Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0481},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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