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We will report recent progress on the QCD phase diagram at finite temperature and density. In particular, we discuss the universal scaling of the chiral transition in the limit of two massless quarks and one strange quark. We also discuss…

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Aiming to understand the phase structure of lattice QCD at nonzero temperature and density, we study the phase transitions of QCD in an extended parameter space, where the number of flavor and quark masses are considered as parameters.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-23 Shinji Ejiri , Ryo Iwami , Norikazu Yamada

Motivated by the search for the QCD critical point, we discuss how to obtain the singular behavior of a thermodynamic system near a critical point, namely the Lee-Yang singularities, from a limited amount of local data generated in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 Gokce Basar , Gerald Dunne , Zelong Yin

We present results on lattice QCD at finite temperature (T) and chemical potential (\mu). We apply the overlap-improving multi-parameter reweighting technique for n_f=4 and 2+1 staggered QCD. We use semi-realistic masses on L_t=4 lattices.…

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

The critical phenomena of two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic $q$-state Potts model on the square lattice with $q=2,3,4,5$ and 6 are investigated using the technique of supervised neural network (NN). Unlike the conventional NN…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-26 Shang-Wei Li , Kai-Wei Huang , Chien-Ting Chen , Fu-Jiun Jiang

We introduce a new way of reconstructing the equation of state of a thermodynamic system near a second order critical point from a finite set of Taylor coefficients computed away from the critical point. We focus on the Ising universality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Gokce Basar

We propose an iterative proposal to estimate critical points for statistical models based on configurations by combing machine-learning tools. Firstly, phase scenarios and preliminary boundaries of phases are obtained by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-23 X. L. Zhao , L. B. Fu

Superconductors have been among the most fascinating substances, as the fundamental concept of superconductivity as well as the correlation of critical temperature and superconductive materials have been the focus of extensive investigation…

One of the distinctive feature of the QCD phase diagram is the possible emergence of a critical endpoint. The critical region around the critical point and the path dependency of the critical exponents is investigated within effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-16 Bernd-Jochen Schaefer , Mathias Wagner

We propose a novel Bayesian method to analytically continue observables to real baryochemical potential $\mu_B$ in finite density QCD. Taylor coefficients at $\mu_B=0$ and data at imaginary chemical potential $\mu_B^I$ are treated on equal…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-03-11 Attila Pásztor , Zsolt Szép , Gergely Markó

We introduce a universal combination of susceptibility and correlation length in the 3D Ising model, depending both on temperature and external magnetic field. Starting from a parametric representation of the equation of state, we study its…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-29 Michele Caselle , Marianna Sorba

The existence of the QCD critical point at non-zero baryon density is not only of great interest for experimental physics but also a challenge for the theory. Any hint of the existence of the first order phase transition and, particularly,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-09-07 Anyi Li

We overview recent theoretical developments in the search for QCD critical point at finite temperature and density, including from lattice QCD, effective QCD theories, and proton number cumulants in heavy-ion collisions. We summarize the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-18 Volodymyr Vovchenko

We discuss the scaling of the Yang-Lee singularity (YLs) and show how the universal scaling can be used to locate phase transitions in QCD. We describe two complementary methods to extract the location of the Yang-Lee singularity from…

Recently we have made considerable progress in our understanding of the behavior of QCD in extreme conditions of high temperature or large baryon number density. Among the highlights are the prediction of a well-characterized true critical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Wilczek

Without invoking any cumulant determination at the input level, we present here the first calculations of direct estimates of the Lee-Yang zeros of QCD partition function in (2+1)-flavor QCD. These zeros are obtained in complex isospin…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-07-21 Sabarnya Mitra

In finite-size scaling analyses of Monte Carlo simulations of second-order phase transitions one often needs an extended temperature range around the critical point. By combining the parallel tempering algorithm with cluster updates and an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Elmar Bittner , Wolfhard Janke

In this paper with study phase transitions of the $q$-state Potts model, through a number of unsupervised machine learning techniques, namely Principal Component Analysis (PCA), $k$-means clustering, Uniform Manifold Approximation and…

We explore the distribution of Lee-Yang zeros around the critical point that appears in the heavy-quark region of QCD at nonzero temperature in lattice numerical simulations. With the aid of the hopping-parameter expansion that is well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Masakiyo Kitazawa , Tatsuya Wada , Kazuyuki Kanaya

Partition function zeros provide alternative approach to study phase structure of finite density QCD. The structure of the Lee-Yang edge singularities associated with the zeros in the complex chemical potential plane has a strong influence…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-09-18 Shinji Ejiri , Yasuhiko Shinno , Hiroshi Yoneyama