Phase Structure and Dynamics of QCD-- A Functional Perspective

Abstract

The understanding of the phase structure and the fundamental properties of QCD matter from its microscopic description requires appropriate first-principle approaches. Here I review the progress towards a quantitative first-principle continuum approach within the framework of the Functional Renormalization group established by the fQCD collaboration. I focus on recent quantitative results for quenched QCD and Yang-Mills theory in the vacuum before addressing the calculation of dynamical quantities such as spectral functions and transport coefficients in this framework.

4 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the Hot Quarks 2016 conference at South Padre Island, TX, USA

References in corpus (4)

• Chiral symmetry breaking in continuum QCD
• Landau gauge Yang-Mills correlation functions
• Renormalization Group Approach towards the QCD Phase Diagram
• Dynamical net-proton fluctuations near a QCD critical point

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• The nonperturbative functional renormalization group and its applications
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