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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …