The Phases of Quantum Chromodynamics: From Confinement to Extreme Environments
ISBN: 9780521143387 | 0521143381
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 6/10/2010
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This book discusses the physical phases of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in ordinary environments, as well as in extreme environments of high temperatures and high baryon number. Under such extreme conditions, new phases are thought to exist: the quark-gluon plasma and colour superconductivity. After introducing lattice gauge theory, beginning with fundamentals and reaching important recent developments, this book emphasizes the application of QCD to the study of matter in extreme environments through a host of methods, including lattice gauge t... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Background to spin systems and critical phenomena | |
| Gauge fields on a four-dimensional Euclidean lattice | |
| Fermions and nonperturbative dynamics in QCD | |
| Lattice fermions and chiral symmetry | |
| Hamiltonian version of lattice-gauge theory | |
| Phase transitions in lattice-gauge theory at high temperatures | |
| Physics of QCD at high temperatures and chemical... MORE | |
| Large chemical potentials and color superconductivity | |
| Effective Lagrangians and models of QCD at nonzero chemical potential | |
| Lattice-gauge theory at nonzero chemical potential | |
| Epilogue | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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