The influence of fluctuations on thermodynamics near chiral phase transition

Abstract

We discuss the influence of fluctuations on thermodynamics near the chiral phase transition within Polyakov loop extended quark--meson model based on the functional renormalization group (FRG) method. We include the gluon fields in the FRG flow equation self-consistently on the mean-field level. We focus on the properties of the phase diagram and net-baryon number fluctuations.

Invited talk at "New Frontiers in QCD 2010", Kyoto, Japan; to appear in Prog. of Theor. Phys

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