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Phys. Rev. D 75, 014502 (2007) [18 pages]

Phase diagram at finite temperature and quark density in the strong coupling limit of lattice QCD for color SU(3)

N. Kawamoto, K. Miura, A. Ohnishi, and T. Ohnuma
Division of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Received 3 February 2006; revised 16 September 2006; published 11 January 2007

We study the phase diagram of quark matter at finite temperature (T) and chemical potential (µ) in the strong coupling limit of lattice QCD for color SU(3). We derive an analytical expression of the effective free energy as a function of T and µ, including baryon effects. The finite temperature effects are evaluated by integrating over the temporal link variable exactly in the Polyakov gauge with an antiperiodic boundary condition for fermions. The obtained phase diagram shows the first and the second order phase transition at low and high temperatures, respectively, and those are separated by the tricritical point in the chiral limit. Baryon has effects to reduce the effective free energy and to extend the hadron phase to a larger µ direction at low temperatures.

©2007 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.014502
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.014502
PACS: 12.38.Gc; 25.75.Nq; 11.15.Me; 11.10.Wx
  • 12.38.Gc
    Lattice QCD calculations
  • 25.75.Nq
    Quark deconfinement, quark-gluon plasma production, and phase transitions in heavy-ion collisions
  • 11.15.Me
    Strong-coupling expansions in gauge theories
  • 11.10.Wx
    Finite-temperature field theory
  • YEAR: 2007

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