2020/12/09 by M. N. Chernodub · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Deconfinement #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Geometry #Hadronization #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Materials science #Particle physics #Phase (matter) #Phase diagram #Physics #Plasma #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quark–gluon plasma #Rotation (mathematics) #hep-lat #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.103.054027
published as Phys. Rev. D 103, 054027 (2021) · 25 pages, 8 figures
arxiv created 2020/12/09 · openalex publication_date 2021/03/23 · arxiv updated 2021/03/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss the effects of rotation on confining properties of gauge theories focusing on compact electrodynamics in two spatial dimensions as an analytically tractable model. We show that at finite temperature, the rotation leads to a deconfining transition starting from a certain distance from the rotation axis. A uniformly rotating confining system possesses, in addition to the usual confinement and deconfinement phases, a mixed inhomogeneous phase which hosts spatially separated confinement and deconfinement regions. The phase diagram thus has two different deconfining temperatures. The first deconfining temperature can be made arbitrarily low by sufficiently rapid rotation while the second deconfining temperature is largely unaffected by the rotation. Implications of our results for the phase diagram of QCD are presented. We point out that uniformly rotating quark-gluon plasma should therefore experience an inverse hadronization effect when the hadronization starts from the core of the rotating plasma rather than from its boundary.