Chiral symmetry restoration at non-zero baryon density at strong coupling
Abstract
I investigate chiral symmetry breaking in lattice QCD at non-zero temperature and at non-zero baryon density. In the hamiltonian formalism with Susskind fermions at strong coupling the partition function describes an antiferromagnetic Ising model in a constant magnetic field. Chiral symmetry is found to be restored at a small chemical potential μc ~ 1/g2 and at low temperature Tc ~ 1/g2. At zero temperature the finite density transition is first order, at zero chemical potential the finite temperature transition is second order.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- August 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-2693(84)90836-0
- Bibcode:
- 1984PhLB..143..210V