Fluctuations and the QCD phase diagram
arXiv:1102.2772 · doi:10.1134/S1063778812060270
Abstract
In this contribution the role of quantum fluctuations for the QCD phase diagram is discussed. This concerns in particular the importance of the matter back-reaction to the gluonic sector. The impact of these fluctuations on the location of the confinement/deconfinement and the chiral transition lines as well as their interrelation are investigated. Consequences of our findings for the size of a possible quarkyonic phase and location of a critical endpoint in the phase diagram are drawn.
7 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physics of Atomic Nuclei