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 …

We review the theoretical developments and conceptual advances that stemmed from the
generalization of QCD to the limit of a large number of color charges, originally proposed by't …

This exhaustive survey is the result of a four year effort by many leading researchers in the
field to produce both a readable introduction and a yardstick for the many upcoming …

In the limit of a large number of colors, Nc, we suggest that gauge theories can exhibit
several distinct phases at nonzero temperature and quark density. Two are familiar: a cold …

The relation between the deconfinement and chiral phase transition is explored in the
framework of a Polyakov-loop-extended two-flavor quark-meson (PQM) model. In this model …

We analyze the phase transition in improved holographic QCD to obtain an estimate of the
gravitational wave signal emitted in the confinement transition of a pure SU (3) Yang-Mills …

We analyze heavy quark free energies in 2-flavor QCD at finite temperature and the
corresponding heavy quark potential at zero temperature. Static quark-antiquark sources in …

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 …

In an extension of the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model where the quarks interact with the
temporal gluon field, represented by the Polyakov loop, we explore the relation between the …

We argue that features of hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions, mainly at CERN-
SPS energies, may be explained by the existence of three forms of matter: Hadronic Matter …