Mapping the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter

Understand

We employ a conformal mapping to explore the thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter at finite values of the baryon chemical potential $\mu$.

• This method allows us to identify the singularity corresponding to the critical point of a second-order phase transition at finite $\mu$, given information only at $\mu=0$.
• The scheme is potentially useful for computing thermodynamic properties of strongly interacting hot and dense matter in lattice gauge theory.
• The technique is illustrated by an application to a chiral effective model.