24–30 Jul 2016
Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

QCD with isospin chemical potential: pion condensation

28 Jul 2016, 16:30
20m
Building 32 Room 1015 (Highfield Campus, University of Southampton)

Building 32 Room 1015

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

Talk Nonzero Temperature and Density Nonzero Temperature and Density

Speaker

Dr Gergely Endrodi (University of Frankfurt)

Description

We study the QCD phase diagram at nonzero isospin chemical potential using 2+1 flavors of staggered fermions with physical quark masses at different lattice spacings and volumes. The talk focuses on the transition to the pion condensation phase at high chemical potentials. This phase is characterized by a proliferation of low modes that slow down the simulation considerably and necessitate the use of an infrared regulator. We discuss a novel strategy to determine the pion condensate in the limit of vanishing regulators.

Primary author

Dr Gergely Endrodi (University of Frankfurt)

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