Non-perturbative calculations of a global U(1) theory at finite density and temperature
arXiv:hep-ph/0008307 · doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00753-7
Abstract
We use an optimised hopping parameter expansion for the free energy (linear delta expansion) to study the phase transitions at finite temperature and finite charge density in a global U(1) scalar Higgs sector on the lattice at large lattice couplings. We are able to plot out phase diagrams in lattice parameter space and find that the standard second-order phase transition with temperature at zero chemical potential becomes first order as the chemical potential increases.
24 pages, 11 figures