1999/09/16 by Mark Alford, M. Alford
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #hep-lat
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0920-5632(00)91668-2
published as Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 83 (2000) 345-347 · LATTICE99(Finite Temperature and Density), LaTeX, 3 pages
arxiv created 1999/09/16 · openalex publication_date 2000/04/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
I discuss the zero temperature phase diagram of QCD, as a function of baryon density and strange quark mass. The noteworthy points are that at sufficiently high density chiral symmetry is always restored, and at low strange quark mass there need be no phase transition between nuclear matter and quark matter. I comment on the possibility that introducing a strange quark may make it easier to see finite-density physics on the lattice.