Constraining the QCD phase diagram by tricritical lines at imaginary chemical potential |
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Authors: | de Forcrand Philippe Philipsen Owe |
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Institution: | Institut für Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland. forcrand@phys.ethz.ch |
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Abstract: | We present unambiguous evidence, from lattice simulations of QCD with three degenerate quark species, for two tricritical points in the (T, m) phase diagram at fixed imaginary chemical potential μ/T = iπ/3 mod2π/3, one in the light and one in the heavy mass regime. These represent the boundaries of the chiral and deconfinement critical lines continued to imaginary μ, respectively. It is demonstrated that the shape of the deconfinement critical line for real chemical potentials is dictated by tricritical scaling and implies the weakening of the deconfinement transition with real chemical potential. The generalization to nondegenerate and light quark masses is discussed. |
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