The phase diagram of nuclear and quark matter at high baryon density

K Fukushima, C Sasaki - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
We review theoretical approaches to explore the phase diagram of nuclear and quark matter
at high baryon density. We first look over the basic properties of quantum chromodynamics …

SU (N) gauge theories at large N

B Lucini, M Panero - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
We review the theoretical developments and conceptual advances that stemmed from the
generalization of QCD to the limit of a large number of color charges, originally proposed by't …

QCD phase diagram for nonzero isospin-asymmetry

BB Brandt, G Endrődi, S Schmalzbauer - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The QCD phase diagram is studied in the presence of an isospin asymmetry using
continuum extrapolated staggered quarks with physical masses. In particular, we investigate …

New Nonperturbative Methods in Quantum Field Theory: From Large-N Orbifold Equivalence to Bions and Resurgence

GV Dunne, M Ünsal - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We present a broad conceptual introduction to some new ideas in nonperturbative quantum
field theory (QFT) that have led to progress toward an understanding of quark confinement in …

Fluctuations in the quark-meson model for QCD with isospin chemical potential

K Kamikado, N Strodthoff, L von Smekal, J Wambach - Physics Letters B, 2013 - Elsevier
We study the two-flavor quark-meson (QM) model with the functional renormalization group
(FRG) to describe the effects of collective mesonic fluctuations on the phase diagram of QCD …

Study of the phase diagram of dense two-color QCD within lattice simulation

VV Braguta, EM Ilgenfritz, AY Kotov, AV Molochkov… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
In this paper, we carry out a low-temperature scan of the phase diagram of dense two-color
QCD with N f= 2 quarks. The study is conducted using lattice simulation with rooted …

QCD matter in extreme environments

K Fukushima - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We review various theoretical approaches to the states of quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
matter out of quarks and gluons in extreme environments such as the high-temperature …

Asymptotic safety with Majorana fermions and new large equivalences

AD Bond, DF Litim, T Steudtner - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Using Majorana fermions and elementary mesons we find new massless quantum field
theories with weakly interacting ultraviolet fixed points. We also find new classes of large N …

Thermal order in large N conformal gauge theories

S Chaudhuri, C Choi, E Rabinovici - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract In this work we explore the possibility of spontaneous breaking of global
symmetries at all nonzero temperatures for conformal field theories (CFTs) in D= 4 space …

Electric conductivity in finite-density lattice gauge theory with dynamical fermions

PV Buividovich, D Smith, L von Smekal - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We study the dependence of the electric conductivity on chemical potential in finite-density
SU (2) gauge theory with N f= 2 flavors of rooted staggered sea quarks, in combination with …