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Potts Flux Tube Model at Nonzero Chemical Potential

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We model the deconfinement phase transition in quantum chromodynamics at nonzero baryon number density and large quark mass by extending the flux tube model (three-state, three-dimensional Potts model) to nonzero chemical potential. In a direct numerical simulation we confirm mean-field-theory predictions that the deconfinement transition does not occur in a baryon-rich environment.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9910028,
  title  = {Potts Flux Tube Model at Nonzero Chemical Potential},
  author = {Jac Condella and Carleton DeTar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9910028},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pp RevTeX, 10 Postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev D. (Corrected some typographical errors.)