QCD phase diagram: an overview

Abstract

The aim of this review is to summarize the contemporary understanding of the QCD phase diagram as a function of temperature and baryo-chemical potential. The focus is on recent theoretical developments due to lattice simulations of the phase diagram.

15 pages, 7 figures; Plenary talk at 24th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2006), Tucson, Arizona, Jul 23-28, 2006

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• Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
• Polyakov loop, diquarks and the two-flavour phase diagram
• QCD Critical Point and Complex Chemical Potential Singularities
• Breakdown of staggered fermions at nonzero chemical potential

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