Thermodynamics of QCD at large quark chemical potential

Abstract

We review the existing weak-coupling results on the thermodynamic potential of deconfined QCD at small and large quark chemical potential and compare with results from lattice gauge theory as well as the exactly solvable case of large-N_f QCD. We also discuss the new analytical results on non-Fermi-liquid effects in entropy and specific heat as well as in dispersion laws of quark quasiparticles at large quark chemical potential.

arXiv comment19 pages, 12 figures. Invited talk given by A. Rebhan at the 29th Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory, Budapest, August 1-3, 2005

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