# The 34th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2016)

24-30 July 2016
Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

## Effective Polyakov Loop Models for QCD-like Theories at Finite Density

29 Jul 2016, 15:40
20m
Building 67 Room 1027 (Highfield Campus, University of Southampton)

### Building 67 Room 1027

#### Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

Talk Nonzero Temperature and Density

### Description

We study the heavy quark limit of QCD-like theories by using a three-dimensional Polyakov theory. This theory can be derived from the full QCD-like theory by a combined strong coupling and hopping expansion. In particular we investigate the cold and dense regime of the phase diagram where we expect to find the Silverblaze property realized as Bose-Einstein-condensation of diquarks or a fist order liquid-gas transition depending on the gauge group of the theory. We find evidence for the Silverblaze property when the quark chemical potential $\mu$ reaches half the diquark mass. For even higher $\mu$ we find a the rise of the Polyakov loop as well as the quark number density.