Thermodynamics of QCD at vanishing density

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We study the phase structure of QCD at finite temperature within a Polyakov-loop enhanced quark-meson model.

• Such a model describes the chiral as well as the confinement-deconfinement dynamics.
• In the present investigation, based on the approach and results put forward in [1-4], both, matter as well as glue fluctuations are included.
• We present results for the order parameters as well as some thermodynamic observables and find very good agreement with recent results from lattice QCD.