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The phase structure of the Polyakov loop-extended chiral quark-meson model is explored in a nonperturbative approach, beyond a mean-field approximation, in the presence of a magnetic field. We show that by including meson fluctuations one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 V. Skokov

In this work, we examine the impact of QCD phase transitions on the quark spin fluctuations and correlations. We propose the quark-antiquark correlation, which relates to the vector meson spin alignment and the $\Lambda-\bar\Lambda$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 Hao-Lei Chen , Wei-jie Fu , Xu-Guang Huang , Guo-Liang Ma

2-color QCD (quantum chromodynamics with N_c=2) at finite temperature T and chemical potential \mu is revisited in the strong coupling limit on the lattice with staggered fermions. The phase structure in the space of T, \mu, and the quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Yusuke Nishida , Kenji Fukushima , Tetsuo Hatsuda

The effect of the finite system size on the QCD phase diagram was studied with various momentum space constraints within a mean-field quark-meson model. On the one hand side, the choice of the scenario -- low-momentum cutoff and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-25 Győző Kovács

We report on the result of quantum Monte Carlo simulation of quasi-one-dimensional electron systems at 1/4-filling, considering organic superconductors such as TMTSF- and TMTTF-salts. We focus on the effect of dimensionality (interchain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Tohru Aonuma , Yuki Fuseya , Masao Ogata

We elucidate how the strong coupling phases of a coupled driven model, originally proposed in S. Mukherjee, Phys. Rev. E 108, 024219 (2023), are affected by noise cross correlations in general dimensions $d$. This model has two dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-23 Sudip Mukherjee

We discuss the relationship between the large order behavior of the perturbative series for the average plaquette in pure gauge theory and singularities in the complex coupling plane. We discuss simple extrapolations of the large order for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Y. Meurice

I show an updated QCD phase diagram with recent developments from chiral effective theories and phenomenological models. Expected signals of a QCD critical point accessible in heavy-ion collisions are also discussed. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Chihiro Sasaki

We investigate the effects of strong magnetic fields on the QCD phase structure at vanishing density by solving the gluon and quark gap equations, and by studying the dynamics of the quark scattering with the four-fermi coupling. The chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Niklas Mueller , Jan M. Pawlowski

We determine the curvature of the pseudo-critical line of strong interactions by means of numerical simulations at imaginary chemical potentials. We consider $N_f=2+1$ stout improved staggered fermions with physical quark masses and the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-23 Claudio Bonati , Massimo D'Elia , Marco Mariti , Michele Mesiti , Francesco Negro , Francesco Sanfilippo

We investigate the phase structure of strongly interacting matter and baryon number fluctuations in the Polyakov loop improved Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. The calculation shows that both the chiral and deconfinement transitions, as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-29 Guo-yun Shao , Zhan-duo Tang , Xue-yan Gao , Wei-bo He

The competition between commensurate and incommensurate spin-density-wave phases in the infinite-dimensional single-band Hubbard model is examined with quantum Monte Carlo simulation and strong and weak coupling approximations. Quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. K. Freericks , Mark Jarrell

We calculate the chiral condensate of QCD at infinite coupling as a function of the number of fundamental fermion flavours using a lattice diagrammatic approach inspired by recent work of Tomboulis, and other work from the 80's. We outline…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-02-18 Alexander S. Christensen , Joyce C. Myers , Peter D. Pedersen , Jan Rosseel

We propose a $\mu$-dependent coupling for a fractal effective model (FNJL) to make the results for the phase diagram compatible with the experimental data and lattice QCD calculations. The $\mu$-dependence of the coupling, which accounts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 E. Megias , A. Deppman , V. S. Timóteo

We present the first quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations with chiral effective field theory (EFT) interactions. To achieve this, we remove all sources of nonlocality, which hamper the inclusion in QMC calculations, in nuclear forces to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-24 A. Gezerlis , I. Tews , E. Epelbaum , S. Gandolfi , K. Hebeler , A. Nogga , A. Schwenk

The relevance of higher order cumulants of conserved charges for the analysis of freeze-out and critical conditions in heavy ion collisions at LHC and RHIC is discussed. Using properties of $O(4)$ scaling functions, the generic structure of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Bengt Friman

Vacuum of Quantum Chromodynamics in very strong (hadron-scale) magnetic fields exhibits many interesting nonperturbative effects. Some of these effects can be studied with the help of lattice simulations in quenched QCD. We review our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 P. V. Buividovich , M. N. Chernodub , E. V. Luschevskaya , M. I. Polikarpov

We study the distribution of the phase angle and the magnitude of the fermion determinant as well as its correlation with the chiral condensate and the baryon number for QCD at non-zero quark chemical potential. Results are derived to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-03-19 M. P. Lombardo , K. Splittorff , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

We study a model in 2+1 dimensions composed of a Fermi surface of $N_f$ flavors of fermions coupled to scalar fluctuations near quantum critical points (QCPs). The $N_f\rightarrow0$ limit allows us to non-perturbatively calculate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-17 Petter Säterskog

The nature of phase boundaries in the QCD phase diagram has not been satisfactorily explored by experiments. Based on the Ginzburg-Landau free energy with a spatially inhomogeneous term as a function of a scalar order parameter, it is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Kensuke Homma , the PHENIX collaboration