The chiral phase transition and the role of vacuum fluctuations

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DOI10.1142/S0217751X16500251zbMATH Open1334.81111arXiv1102.2779MaRDI QIDQ2800880FDOQ2800880


Authors: Rashid Khan, Jens O. Andersen, Lars T. Kyllingstad, Majid Khan Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 April 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We apply optimized perturbation theory to the quark-meson model at finite temperature T and quark chemical potential mu. The effective potential is calculated to one loop both in the chiral limit and at the physical point and used to study the chiral dynamics of two-flavor QCD. The critical temperature and the order of the phase transition depends heavily on whether or not one includes the bosonic and fermionic vacuum fluctuations in the effective potential. A full one-loop calculation in the chiral limit predicts a first-order transition for all values of mu. At the physical point, one finds a crossover in the whole muT plane.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2779




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