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Mapping the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter
Phys. Rev. D 83, 071502(R) – Published 15 April, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.071502
Abstract
We employ a conformal mapping to explore the thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter at finite values of the baryon chemical potential . This method allows us to identify the singularity corresponding to the critical point of a second-order phase transition at finite , given information only at . The scheme is potentially useful for computing thermodynamic properties of strongly interacting hot and dense matter in lattice gauge theory. The technique is illustrated by an application to a chiral effective model.
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