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Restoring canonical partition functions from imaginary chemical potential

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2018-04-18 v1

Abstract

Using GPGPU techniques and multi-precision calculation we developed the code to study QCD phase transition line in the canonical approach. The canonical approach is a powerful tool to investigate sign problem in Lattice QCD. The central part of the canonical approach is the fugacity expansion of the grand canonical partition functions. Canonical partition functions Zn(T)Z_n(T) are coefficients of this expansion. Using various methods we study properties of Zn(T)Z_n(T). At the last step we perform cubic spline for temperature dependence of Zn(T)Z_n(T) at fixed nn and compute baryon number susceptibility χB/T2\chi_B/T^2 as function of temperature. After that we compute numerically χ/T\partial\chi/ \partial T and restore crossover line in QCD phase diagram. We use improved Wilson fermions and Iwasaki gauge action on the 163×416^3 \times 4 lattice with mπ/mρ=0.8m_{\pi}/m_{\rho} = 0.8 as a sandbox to check the canonical approach. In this framework we obtain coefficient in parametrization of crossover line Tc(μB2)=Tc(cκμB2/Tc2)T_c(\mu_B^2)=T_c\left(c-\kappa\, \mu_B^2/T_c^2\right) with κ=0.0453±0.0099\kappa = -0.0453 \pm 0.0099.

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@article{arxiv.1712.01515,
  title  = {Restoring canonical partition functions from imaginary chemical potential},
  author = {V. G. Bornyakov and D. Boyda and V. Goy and A. Molochkov and A. Nakamura and A. Nikolaev and V. I. Zakharov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01515},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures

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