The phase structure of the Polyakov–quark–meson model beyond mean field

By T. Herbst, Jan M. Pawlowski, B. Schaefer. 2010

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The Polyakov-extended quark–meson model (PQM) is investigated beyond mean-field. This represents an important step towards a fully dynamical QCD computation. Both the quantum fluctuations to the matter sector and the back-reaction of the matter fluctuations to the QCD Yang–Mills sector are included. Results on the chiral and confinement–deconfinement crossover/phase transition lines and the location of a possible critical endpoint are presented. Moreover, thermodynamic quantities such as the pressure and the quark density are discussed.

Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Condensed Matter Physics

1. C. Fischer
2. A. Eichhorn
3. L. Canet
4. V. Skokov
5. W. Metzner
6. N. Dupuis
7. Jan M. Pawlowski
8. M. Tissier

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. C. Fischer
2. A. Eichhorn
3. Jan M. Pawlowski
4. Markus Q. Huber
5. W. Metzner
6. M. Tissier
7. N. Dupuis
8. N. Wschebor

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• Polyakov loop modeling for hot QCD (2017, background): “The latter has a significant phenomenological impact especially for the size of the QCD criticality region [132, 133, 134].”
• The nonperturbative functional renormalization group and its applications (2020, background): “The phase structure of QCD and the interplay between confinement and chiral symmetry at finite temperature and density have been studied in [927–935].”
• Nonperturbative properties of Yang–Mills theories (2018, unknown): “,[124–137].”
• QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential from Dyson–Schwinger equations (2018, methodology): “The Polyakov-loop enhanced effective models such as the Polyakov-loop Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model (PNJL) [7–9] and the Polyakov-loop quark-meson model (PQM) [10–12] are excellent tools to study a range of fundamental and phenomenological questions related to the QCD phase diagram, see e.”