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I investigate a $d$-dimensional $U(N)$ Polyakov loop model that includes the exact static determinant with $N_f$ degenerate quark flavor and depends explicitly on the quark mass and chemical potential. In the large $N, N_f$ limit mean field…
An improved version of the PNJL model is used to calculate various thermodynamical quantities, {\it viz.}, quark number susceptibility, isospin susceptibility, specific heat, speed of sound and conformal measure. Comparison with Lattice…
Fluctuations of baryon, charge and strangeness have been investigated in Polyakov loop enhanced Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. Multiple reflection expansion method has been incorporated to include the surface and curvature energy along with the…
The Polyakov loop and the chiral condensate are used as order parameters to explore analytically the possible phase structure of finite temperature QCD. Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models in a background temporal gauge field are combined with a…
Thermodynamic properties of strongly interacting matter are investigated using the Polyakov loop enhanced Nambu$-$Jona-Lasinio model along with some modifications to include the hadrons. Various observables are shown to have a close…
We study the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter including the inhomogeneous phase of Chiral Density Waves (CDW) within the Polyakov loop extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. We discuss the phase structure taking into account…
We investigate the phase structure of QCD at finite temperature and light-quark chemical potential. We improve upon earlier results for N_f=2+1 dynamical quark flavors and investigate the effects of charm quarks in an extension to…
In this work we make use of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model to investigate thermodynamic properties of magnetized three-flavor quark matter. The non-equilibrium Tsallis distribution is characterized by a dimensionless non-extensive parameter…
Extending our recently published $SU(2)$ results for zero temperature we now compute the QCD equation of state for finite isospin density within the three flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in the mean field approximation, motivated by the…
We incorporate the effective restoration of $U(1)_{\rm A}$ symmetry in the 2+1 flavor entanglement Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (EPNJL) model by introducing a temperature-dependent strength $K(T)$ to the Kobayashi-Maskawa-'t…
We present a major update on our investigations of SU(2) gauge theory with one Dirac flavor in the adjoint representation on the lattice. In particular we consider larger volumes, as well as four different values of the gauge coupling. We…
Investigations of deconfined quark matter within NJL-type models are reviewed, focusing on the regime of low temperatures and ``moderate'' densities, which is not accessible by perturbative QCD. Central issue is the interplay between chiral…
We investigate the influence of the allowed unphysical meson decay into a quark-antiquark pair of the three flavour Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model on its parameter fixing. This decay manifests in a non-vanishing imaginary part of the…
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We extend the SU(3) (Polyakov) Nambu Jona-Lasinio in two ways: We introduce the next to leading order contribution (in $N_c$) in the partition function. This contribution contains explicit mesonic terms. We introduce a coupling between the…
We study the quark number susceptibility in SU(2) lattice gauge theory with two Wilson quark flavours at non-zero chemical potential and low temperature. We present some technical aspects of the issue and numerical results obtained at…
The effective action of the SU(N) Polyakov loop model in the strong coupling region and in the static limit for the quark determinant can be mapped onto the Ising model in any dimensions, with the Ising variables attached on the links of…
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We report on a study of QCD thermodynamics with three flavors of quarks, using a Symanzik improved gauge action and the Asqtad O(a^2) improved staggered quark action. Simulations were carried out with lattice spacings 1/4T, 1/6T and 1/8T…