Phase transitions in particle physics: Results and perspectives from lattice quantum chromo-dynamics

G Aarts, J Aichelin, C Allton, A Athenodorou… - Progress in Particle and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phase transitions in a non-perturbative regime can be studied by ab initio Lattice Field
Theory methods. The status and future research directions for LFT investigations of Quantum …

Lattice QCD and heavy ion collisions: a review of recent progress

C Ratti - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In the last few years, numerical simulations of Quantum chromodynamics on the lattice have
reached a new level of accuracy. A wide range of thermodynamic quantities is now available …

Lattice QCD equation of state at finite chemical potential from an alternative expansion scheme

S Borsányi, Z Fodor, JN Guenther, R Kara, SD Katz… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
In this Letter, we introduce a novel scheme for extrapolating the equation of state of QCD to
finite chemical potential that features considerably improved convergence properties and …

Towards quantum computing phase diagrams of gauge theories with thermal pure quantum states

Z Davoudi, N Mueller, C Powers - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The phase diagram of strong interactions in nature at finite temperature and chemical
potential remains largely theoretically unexplored due to inadequacy of Monte-Carlo–based …

QCD at finite temperature and density within the fRG approach: an overview

W Fu - Communications in Theoretical Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we present an overview on recent progress in studies of QCD at finite
temperature and densities within the functional renormalization group (fRG) approach. The …

Perturbative thermal QCD: formalism and applications

J Ghiglieri, A Kurkela, M Strickland, A Vuorinen - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
In this review article, we discuss the current status and future prospects of perturbation
theory as a means of studying the equilibrium thermodynamic and near-equilibrium …

QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories: challenges and perspectives

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, P Foka, S Gardner… - The European Physical …, 2014 - Springer
We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

Hyper-order baryon number fluctuations at finite temperature and density

W Fu, X Luo, JM Pawlowski, F Rennecke, R Wen, S Yin - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Fluctuations of conserved charges are sensitive to the QCD phase transition and a possible
critical end point in the phase diagram at finite density. In this work, we compute the baryon …

Critical point in the phase diagram of primordial quark-gluon matter from black hole physics

R Critelli, J Noronha, J Noronha-Hostler, I Portillo… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Strongly interacting matter undergoes a crossover phase transition at high temperatures T∼
10 12 K and zero net-baryon density. A fundamental question in the theory of strong …

Three-loop HTLpt thermodynamics at finite temperature and chemical potential

N Haque, A Bandyopadhyay, JO Andersen… - Journal of High Energy …, 2014 - Springer
A bstract We calculate the three-loop thermodynamic potential of QCD at finite temperature
and chemical potential (s) using the hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory (HTLpt) …