The phase diagram of nuclear and quark matter at high baryon density

K Fukushima, C Sasaki - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
We review theoretical approaches to explore the phase diagram of nuclear and quark matter
at high baryon density. We first look over the basic properties of quantum chromodynamics …

Inhomogeneous chiral condensates

M Buballa, S Carignano - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
The chiral condensate, which is constant in vacuum, may become spatially modulated at
moderately high densities where in the traditional picture of the QCD phase diagram a first …

Phase diagram of QCD in a magnetic field

JO Andersen, WR Naylor, A Tranberg - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Recent advances in our understanding of the phase structure and the phase transitions of
hadronic matter in strong magnetic fields B and zero quark chemical potentials μ f are …

Phase diagram of hot QCD in an external magnetic field: Possible splitting<? format?> of deconfinement and chiral transitions

AJ Mizher, MN Chernodub, ES Fraga - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2010 - APS
The structure of the phase diagram for strong interactions becomes richer in the presence of
a magnetic background, which enters as a new control parameter for the thermodynamics …

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

TK Herbst, JM Pawlowski, BJ Schaefer - Physics Letters B, 2011 - Elsevier
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 …

Dark confinement and chiral phase transitions: gravitational waves vs matter representations

M Reichert, F Sannino, ZW Wang, C Zhang - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We study the gravitational-wave signal stemming from strongly coupled models
featuring both, dark chiral and confinement phase transitions. We therefore identify strongly …

QCD critical region and higher moments for three-flavor models

BJ Schaefer, M Wagner - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation …, 2012 - APS
One of the distinctive features of the QCD phase diagram is the possible emergence of a
critical endpoint. The critical region around the critical point and the path dependency of the …

Equation of state for hot QCD and compact stars from a mean-field approach

A Motornenko, J Steinheimer, V Vovchenko… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
The thermodynamic properties of high temperature and high density QCD matter are
explored within the chiral SU (3)-flavor parity-doublet Polyakov-loop quark-hadron mean …

Quark number fluctuations in the Polyakov loop-extended quark-meson model at finite baryon density

V Skokov, B Friman, K Redlich - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2011 - APS
The thermodynamics and phase structure of the Polyakov loop-extended two-flavor chiral
quark-meson (PQM) model are explored beyond the mean-field approximation. The analysis …

Baryon number fluctuations in the QCD phase diagram from Dyson-Schwinger equations

P Isserstedt, M Buballa, CS Fischer, PJ Gunkel - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We present results for fluctuations of the baryon number for QCD at nonzero temperature
and chemical potential. These are extracted from solutions to a coupled set of truncated …