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Constraining the QCD phase diagram by tricritical lines at imaginary chemical potential

de Forcrand, Philippe, Philipsen, Owe

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We present unambiguous evidence from lattice simulations of QCD with three degenerate quark species for two tricritical points in the (T,m) phase diagram at fixed imaginary \mu/T=i\pi/3 mod 2\pi/3, one in the light and one in the heavy mass regime.

  • These represent the boundaries of the chiral and deconfinement critical lines continued to imaginary chemical potential, respectively.
  • It is demonstrated that the shape of the deconfinement critical line for real chemical potentials is dictated by tricritical scaling and implies the weakening of the deconfinement transition with real chemical potential.
  • The generalization to non-degenerate and light quark masses is discussed.

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