QCD at nonzero isospin asymmetry
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2018-11-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study the phase diagram and the thermodynamic properties of QCD at nonzero isospin asymmetry at physical quark masses with staggered quarks. In particular, continuum results for the phase boundary between the normal and the pion condensation phases and the chiral/deconfinement transition are presented. Our findings indicate that the pion condensation phase is restricted to ~MeV for isospin chemical potentials up to 325~MeV. We also use the data to test the range of validity of the Taylor expansion method and show first results for the equation of state.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1811.06004,
title = {QCD at nonzero isospin asymmetry},
author = {Bastian B. Brandt and Gergely Endrodi and Sebastian Schmalzbauer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06004},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
8 pages, 7 figures, poster contribution to the XIII Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (Confinement 2018) conference, 31 July - 6 August 2018, Maynooth University, Ireland