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In QCD with two flavors of massless quarks, the chiral phase transition is plausibly in the same universality class as the classical four component Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Therefore, renormalization group techniques developed in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Rajagopal , F. Wilczek

Baryon number fluctuations are sensitive to the QCD phase transition and QCD critical point. According to the Feynman rules of finite-temperature field theory, we calculated various order moments and cumulants of the baryon number…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-07 Ameng Zhao , Xiaofeng Luo , Hongshi Zong

The non-monotonic beam energy dependence of the higher cumulants of net-proton fluctuations is a widely studied signature of the conjectured presence of a critical point in the QCD phase diagram. In this work we study the effect of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Marcus Bluhm , Marlene Nahrgang , Steffen A. Bass , Thomas Schaefer

This paper investigates the dynamics of the net-baryon multiplicity fluctuations near the QCD critical point, within the inhomogeneous temperature and baryon chemical potential profile of quark-gluon plasma from the hydrodynamics. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-04 Shanjin Wu

Event-by-event fluctuations of the baryon number, which is mostly carried by protons and neutrons, in relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a sensitive probe for locating the conjectured critical point in the quantum chromodynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-24 Yi-Heng Feng , Che Ming Ko , Xiaofeng Luo , Yu-Gang Ma , Kai-Jia Sun , Song Zhang

We study a system of two tunnel-coupled quantum dots, with the first dot containing interacting electrons (described by the Universal Hamiltonian) not subject to spin-orbit coupling, whereas the second contains non-interacting electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Oleksandr Zelyak , Ganpathy Murthy

We show that the Linear Sigma Model with quarks produces an effective description of the QCD phase diagram and of the system's equilibrium distribution properties that deviate from those of the Hadron Resonance Gas Model. The deviation is…

The Poisson-liked statistical fluctuations, which are caused by the finite number of produced particles, are firstly estimated for the cumulants of conserved charges, i.e., the cumulants of net-baryon, net-electric charge, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-22 Xue Pan , Fan Zhang , Zhiming Li , Lizhu Chen , Mingmei Xu , Yuanfang Wu

We study the effect of thermal fluctuations on the critical dynamics of the three-dimensional disordered superconductor across the normal-superconducting transition. We employ a phenomenological hydrodynamic approach, and in particular find…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Smitha Vishveshwara , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Higher order moments of net conserved charge fluctuations, in particular net baryon number and net electric charge, are sensitive thermodynamic observables that respond strongly to critical behavior in strong interaction matter. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-16 Frithjof Karsch

We present results for fluctuations of the baryon number for QCD at nonzero temperature and chemical potential. These are extracted from solutions to a coupled set of truncated Dyson-Schwinger equations for the quark and gluon propagators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-01 Philipp Isserstedt , Michael Buballa , Christian S. Fischer , Pascal J. Gunkel

Controlling quantum critical phenomena in strongly correlated electron systems, which emerge in the neighborhood of a quantum phase transition, is a major challenge in modern condensed matter physics. Quantum critical phenomena are…

We study the correlation between the distributions of the net-charge, net-kaon, net-baryon and net-proton number at hadronization and after the final hadronic decoupling by simulating ultra relativistic heavy ion collisions with the hybrid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-23 J. Steinheimer , V. Vovchenko , J. Aichelin , M. Bleicher , H. Stöcker

We consider non-equilibrium evolution of non-Gaussian fluctuations within relativistic hydrodynamics relevant for the QCD critical point search in heavy-ion collision experiments. We rely on the hierarchy of relaxation time scales, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Xin An , Gokce Basar , Mikhail Stephanov , Ho-Ung Yee

The nonequilibrium dynamics of the chiral phase transition expected during the expansion of the quark-qluon plasma produced in a high energy hadron or heavy ion collision is studied in the O(4) linear sigma model to leading order in a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Fred Cooper , Yuval Kluger , Emil Mottola , Juan Pablo Paz

We explore the potential of net-baryon, net-proton and net-charge kurtosis measurements to investigate the properties of hot and dense matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Contrary to calculations in a grand canonical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Marlene Nahrgang , Tim Schuster , Michael Mitrovski , Reinhard Stock , Marcus Bleicher

Dynamical phase transitions (DPTs) characterize critical changes in system behavior occurring at finite times, providing a lens to study nonequilibrium phenomena beyond conventional equilibrium physics. While extensively studied in quantum…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-10 Jiazhen Liu , Nathaniel M. Aden , Debasish Sarker , Chaoming Song

The critical phenomena associated to the liquid to solid transition of quasi-two-dimensional vibrated granular systems is studied using molecular dynamics simulations of the inelastic hard sphere model. The critical properties are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Marcelo Guzman , Rodrigo Soto

The higher order moments of the net-baryon distributions in relativistic heavy ion collisions are useful probes for the QCD critical point and fluctuations. We study the net-proton distributions and their moments in a simple model which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 C. B. Yang , X. Wang

We perform a simplified Ethernet traffic simulation in order to clarify the physical mechanism of the phase transition behavior which has been experimentally observed in the flow density fluctuation of Internet traffic. In one phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kensuke Fukuda , Hideki Takayasu , Misako Takayasu