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Condensation of lighter-than-physical pions in QCD

1 Aug 2024, 10:40
20m
Talk QCD at Non-zero Density QCD at non-zero density

Speaker

Volodymyr Chelnokov (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Description

We report on the results of the 2+1 flavour QCD simulations at nonzero isospin chemical potential performed at half the physical light quark mass. At low temperatures and large isospin chemical potential Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) occurs, creating a pion condensed phase, separated from the hadronic and quark-gluon plasma phases by the BEC transition line. We show that for lighter than physical pions the hadronic/pion condensed section of the BEC line remains vertical, and goes to zero chemical potential linearly with the pion mass, giving a prediction of the phase diagram in the chiral limit.

Primary authors

Bastian Brandt (Bielefeld University) Francesca Cuteri (Goethe University - Frankfurt) Gergely Endrodi (Bielefeld University) Volodymyr Chelnokov (Goethe University Frankfurt)

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