Potts flux tube model at nonzero chemical potential

1999/10/31 by Jac Condella, Carleton DeTar · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Theoretical and Computational Physics #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.61.074023

published as Phys.Rev.D61:074023,2000 · 14 pp RevTeX, 10 Postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev D. (Corrected some typographical errors.)

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Abstract

We model the deconfinement phase transition in quantum chromodynamics at nonzero baryon number density and large quark mass by extending the flux tube model (three-state, three-dimensional Potts model) to nonzero chemical potential. In a direct numerical simulation we confirm mean-field-theory predictions that the deconfinement transition does not occur in a baryon-rich environment.

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