Nonperturbative SU(3) thermodynamics and the phase transition

Understand

The $SU(3)$ equation of state ($P(T),\,s(T),\,I(T)$) are calculated within the Field Correlator Method both in the confined and the deconfined phases.

• The basic dynamics in our approach is contained in the vacuum correlators, both of the colorelectric (CE) and colormagnetic (CM) types, which ensure CE and CM confinement below $T_c$ and CM confinement and Polyakov loops above $T_c$.
• The resulting values of $T_c$ and $P(T),\,I(T)$, $s(T)$ are in good agreement with lattice measurements.