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We investigate the phase structure of the (3+1)-dimensional strong coupling two-color QCD at zero temperature ($T=0$) with finite chemical potential using the tensor renormalization group method. The chiral and diquark condensates and the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-13 Yuto Sugimoto , Shinichiro Akiyama , Yoshinobu Kuramashi

In this paper we carry out a low-temperature scan of the phase diagram of dense two-color QCD with $N_f=2$ quarks. The study is conducted using lattice simulation with rooted staggered quarks. At small chemical potential we observe the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-19 V. V. Braguta , E. -M. Ilgenfritz , A. Yu. Kotov , A. V. Molochkov , A. A. Nikolaev

Matter described by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions, may undergo phase transitions when its temperature and the chemical potentials are varied. QCD at finite temperature is studied in the laboratory by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-24 Sourendu Gupta , Xiaofeng Luo , Bedangadas Mohanty , Hans Georg Ritter , Nu Xu

We study the QCD phase diagram at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential by relating the behavior of the light-quark condensate to the threshold energy for the onset of perturbative QCD. These parameters are connected to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Alejandro Ayala , Adnan Bashir , C. A. Dominguez , Enif Gutierrez , M. Loewe , Alfredo Raya

Current status of theoretical researches on the QCD phase diagram at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential is reviewed with special emphasis on the origin of various phases and their symmetry breaking patterns. Topics include;…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Kenji Fukushima , Tetsuo Hatsuda

Recent results on the QCD phase diagram are reviewed. We begin with a detailed introduction of lattice techniques. Then results at vanishing chemical potential are presented. The order of the phase transition, the transition temperature and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-25 Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz

The order of the chiral phase transition in two-color and two-flavor QC$_2$D is investigated using the functional renormalization group (FRG) technique in an effective model setting. We calculate the $\beta$ function of all couplings in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-25 G. Fejos , D. Suenaga

We present an update on the phase diagram of two-color QCD from a chiral effective model approach based on a quark-meson-diquark model using the Functional Renormalization Group (FRG). We discuss the impact of perturbative UV contributions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-27 Nils Strodthoff , Lorenz von Smekal

We study genuine finite density effects in QCD-like theories with three-dimensional Polyakov-loop effective theories for heavy quarks. These are derived from the full QCD-like theories by combined strong-coupling and hopping expansions. In…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-02-16 Philipp Scior , Lorenz von Smekal

We study the thermodynamics of two-color QCD at high temperature and/or density using a dimensionally reduced superrenormalizable effective theory, formulated in terms of a coarse grained Wilson line. In the absence of quarks, the theory is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-01 Tian Zhang , Tomáš Brauner , Aleksi Kurkela , Aleksi Vuorinen

We investigate the properties of cold dense quark matter composed of two colors and two flavors of light quarks. In particular, we perform the first model calculation of the full phase diagram at nonzero baryon and isospin density, thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-19 Jens O. Andersen , Tomas Brauner

We calculate thermodynamic potentials and their derivatives for the three-dimensional $O(2)$ model using tensor-network methods to investigate the well-known second-order phase transition. We also consider the model at non-zero chemical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-30 Jacques Bloch , Raghav G. Jha , Robert Lohmayer , Maximilian Meister

We study the two-flavor quark-meson (QM) model with the functional renormalization group (FRG) to describe the effects of collective mesonic fluctuations on the phase diagram of QCD at finite baryon and isospin chemical potentials, $\mu_B$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-21 Kazuhiko Kamikado , Nils Strodthoff , Lorenz von Smekal , Jochen Wambach

We revisit the phase diagram of strong-interaction matter for the two-flavor quark-meson model using the Functional Renormalization Group. In contrast to standard mean-field calculations, an unusual phase structure is encountered at low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-28 Ralf-Arno Tripolt , Bernd-Jochen Schaefer , Lorenz von Smekal , Jochen Wambach

We discuss the generic phase diagrams of pure systems that remain fluid near zero temperature. We call this phase a quantum fluid. We argue that the signature of the transition is the change of sign of the chemical potential, being negative…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-09-09 Victor Romero-Rochin

A comprehensive study of the phase structure of the two-flavor quark-meson-diquark model is presented within the nonperturbative functional renormalization group framework. The influence of mesonic fluctuations beyond the mean-field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 Ugo Mire , Bernd-Jochen Schaefer

I briefly review some aspects of the Quantum Chromo Dynamics phase diagram at non zero temperature and quark chemical potential. I then suggest new possible phases which can appear in strongly interacting theories at non zero chemical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Francesco Sannino

I give a brief overview of our current understanding of the QCD phase diagram at finite temperature and baryon density. I emphasize phase transitions which occur at high density and low temperature (relative to the QCD scale), such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. H. Hsu

We use a Landau theory and the epsilon expansion to study the superfluid phase transition of two-color QCD at nonzero temperature, T, and baryonic chemical potential, mu. At low T, and for N_f flavors of massless quarks, the global SU(N_f)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Wirstam , J. T. Lenaghan , K. Splittorff

The phase structure of QCD remains an open fundamental problem of standard model physics. In particular at finite density, our knowledge is limited. Yet, numerous model studies point towards a rich and complex phase diagram at large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-14 Fabian Rennecke