The 3-state Potts model as a heavy quark finite density laboratory
Loading...
Date
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
Description
The 3-D Z(3) Potts model is a model for finite temperature QCD with heavy quarks. The chemical potential in QCD becomes an external magnetic field in the Potts model. Following Alford et al.\cite{Alford_et_al}, we revisit this mapping, and determine the phase diagram for an arbitrary chemical potential, real or imaginary. Analytic continuation of the phase transition line between real and imaginary chemical potential can be tested with precision. Our results show that the chemical potential weakens the heavy-quark deconfinement transition in QCD.
6 pages and 7 figures. talk presented at Lattice 2005 (non-zero temperature and density)
6 pages and 7 figures. talk presented at Lattice 2005 (non-zero temperature and density)