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We present numerical results for the location of the chiral critical line at finite temperature and zero and non-zero baryon density for QCD with N_f=2+1 flavours of staggered fermions on lattices with temporal extent N_t=4. For degenerate…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-10-27 Philippe de Forcrand , Owe Philipsen

In the QCD phase diagram, the dependence of the pseudo-critical temperature, $T_{\rm{pc}}$, on the baryon chemical potential, $\mu_B$, is of fundamental interest. The variation of $T_{\rm{pc}}$ with $\mu_B$ is normally captured by $\kappa$,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-16 Antonio Smecca , Gert Aarts , Chris Allton , Ryan Bignell , Benjamin Jäger , Seung-il Nam , Seyong Kim , Jon-Ivar Skullerud , Liang-Kai Wu

The nature of the thermal phase transition of two flavor QCD in the chiral limit has an important implication for the QCD phase diagram. We carry out lattice QCD simulations in an attempt to address this problem. Simulations are conducted…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-07-04 Liang-Kai Wu , Fa-Ling Zhang

We present results from a comprehensive study of the location of the chiral critical surface, which separates regions of first-order chiral transitions from analytic crossovers, in the bare parameter space of lattice QCD with unimproved…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-22 Francesca Cuteri , Owe Philipsen , Alessandro Sciarra

We investigate the chiral phase transition in the strong coupling lattice QCD at finite temperature and density with finite coupling effects. We adopt one species of staggered fermion, and develop an analytic formulation based on strong…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-05 Kohtaroh Miura , Takashi Z. Nakano , Akira Ohnishi , Noboru Kawamoto

We investigate the order of the finite temperature chiral symmetry restoration transition for QCD with two massless fermions, by using a novel method, based on simulating imaginary values of the quark chemical potential…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-10-30 Claudio Bonati , Philippe de Forcrand , Massimo D'Elia , Owe Philipsen , Francesco Sanfilippo

We investigate the quality of the extrapolation procedure employed in Ref. [1] to extract the crossover line at real chemical potential from lattice data at imaginary potential. To this end we employ a functional approach that does not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-15 Julian Bernhardt , Christian S. Fischer

The order of the thermal chiral phase transition in lattice QCD is known to be strongly cutoff-dependent. A previous study using $N_\mathrm{f}\in[2,6]$ mass-degenerate, unimproved staggered quark flavours on $N_\tau\in\{4,6,8\}$ lattices…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-18 Alfredo D'Ambrosio , Michael Fromm , Reinhold Kaiser , Owe Philipsen

We present preliminary results about the critical line of QCD with two degenerate staggered quarks at nonzero temperature and chemical potential, obtained by the method of analytic continuation. As in our previous studies with different…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-10-19 P. Cea , L. Cosmai , M. D'Elia , A. Papa , F. Sanfilippo

We study the scaling behaviour of the pseudo-critical couplings for the chiral phase transition in two-flavour QCD. We show that all existing results from lattice simulations on lattices with temporal extent $N_\tau = 4$, 6 and 8 can be…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Frithjof Karsch

In this paper we study the Chiral Separation Effect by means of first-principles lattice QCD simulations. For the first time in the literature, we determine the continuum limit of the associated conductivity using 2+1 flavors of dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-29 Bastian B. Brandt , Gergely Endrődi , Eduardo Garnacho-Velasco , Gergely Markó

We investigate the finite-temperature quantum chromodynamics (QCD) on a rotating lattice with $N_f=2+1$ staggered fermions and the projective plane boundary condition. We observe a negative rotational rigidity (defined in the main text) and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-07-13 Ji-Chong Yang , Xu-Guang Huang

The chiral symmetry of QCD with two massless quark flavours gets restored in a non-analytic chiral phase transition at finite temperature and zero density. Whether this is a first-order or a second-order transition has not yet been…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-05 Claudio Bonati , Massimo D'Elia , Philippe de Forcrand , Owe Philipsen , Francesco Sanfillippo

We present unambiguous evidence from lattice simulations of N_f=3 QCD for two tricritical points in the (T,m) phase diagram at fixed imaginary \mu/T=i\pi/3 mod. 2\pi/3, one in the light and one in the heavy quark regime. Together with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-02 Owe Philipsen , Philippe de Forcrand

We revisit the determination of the pseudo-critical line of QCD with four degenerate quarks at non-zero temperature and baryon density by the method of analytic continuation. We determine the pseudo-critical couplings at imaginary chemical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-03-13 Paolo Cea , Leonardo Cosmai , Massimo D'Elia , Alessandro Papa

We discuss analytic continuation as a tool to extract the cumulants of the quark number fluctuations in the strongly interacting medium from lattice QCD simulations at imaginary chemical potentials. The method is applied to $N_f = 2+1$ QCD,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-06-21 Massimo D'Elia , Giuseppe Gagliardi , Francesco Sanfilippo

We report on investigations of the chiral and deconfinement aspects of the finite temperature transition in 2+1 flavor QCD using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action on lattices with temporal extent $N_\tau=6$ and $N_\tau=8$.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 Alexei Bazavov , Peter Petreczky

The QCD phase diagram is studied in the lattice QCD simulation with the imaginary chemical potential approach. We employ a clover-improved Wilson fermion action of two-flavors and a renormalization-group improved gauge action, and perform…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-04 Keitaro Nagata , Atsushi Nakamura

The transition temperature ($T_c$) of QCD is determined by Symanzik improved gauge and stout-link improved staggered fermionic lattice simulations. We use physical masses both for the light quarks ($m_{ud}$) and for the strange quark…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Aoki , Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz , K. K. Szabo

The order of the chiral phase transition of lattice QCD with unimproved staggered fermions is known to depend on the number of quark flavours, their masses and the lattice spacing. Previous studies in the literature for $N_f \in \{ 3,4 \}$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-21 Francesca Cuteri , Alfredo D'Ambrosio , Owe Philipsen , Alessandro Sciarra