The phase diagram of four flavor SU(2) lattice gauge theory at nonzero chemical potential and temperature

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Abstract: SU(2) lattice gauge theory with four flavors of quarks is simulated at nonzero chemical potential mu and temperature T and the results are compared to the predictions of Effective Lagrangians. Simulations on 164 lattices indicate that at zero T the theory experiences a second order phase transition to a diquark condensate state. Several methods of analysis, including equation of state fits suggested by Chiral Perturbation Theory, suggest that mean-field scaling describes this critical point. Nonzero T and mu are studied on 123imes6 lattices. For low T, increasing mu takes the system through a line of second order phase transitions to a diquark condensed phase. Increasing T at high mu, the system passes through a line of first order transitions from the diquark phase to the quark-gluon plasma phase. Metastability is found in the vicinity of the first order line. There is a tricritical point along this line of transitions whose position is consistent with theoretical predictions.









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