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20152026
most citedTheoretical and Experimental Constraints for the Equation of State of Dense and Hot Matter

87 citations · 709 across the 53 of their papers we have counts for

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57 papers

nucl-th2026

Four-dimensional QCD equation of state with a critical surface from contours of constant entropy density

Tristan Gyure, Hitansh Shah, Lorenzo Formaggio +4

We present a new lattice-QCD-based equation of state in the four-dimensional space of which features a critical surface. This is obtained by generalizing the expa…

nucl-th2026

MUSES workflows for pQCD constraints on dense matter with finite quark masses

Isabella Danhoni, Mateus Reinke Pelicer, Débora Mroczek +3

We present a modular implementation of next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) thermodynamics with finite strange quark mass in the MUSES Calculation Engine, enabling r…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Fluctuation--response relations from an emergent symmetry in the rotating stochastic Landau model

Dhruv Kush, Nicki Mullins, Mauricio Hippert +1

In this work, we investigate the extent to which fluctuation--response relations emerge from coarse-grained stochastic dynamics alone, and which aspects instead depend on additiona…

nucl-th2026

Thermodynamically Consistent Merging of Multidimensional QCD Equations of State

Prachi Garella, Yumu Yang, Musa R. Khan +7

We present a thermodynamically consistent framework for merging complementary models into a multidimensional QCD equation of state. An internal mixing variable is determined by min…

nucl-th2026

QCD critical surface from constant entropy contours

Hitansh Shah, Tristan Gyure, Anabella Leon +4

We provide the first mapping of the critical surface in (2+1)-flavor QCD in the full space, anchored on lattice QCD results at vanishing chemical potentials and o…

nucl-th2026

Studying the QCD Matter produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions using the MUSES Calculation Engine

Johannes Jahan, Kevin P. Pala, Yumu Yang +42

The equation of state of hot and dense matter is essential for describing heavy-ion collisions at all collision energies. Here, we explore the capabilities of the latest version of…

nucl-th2026

Uncertainty quantification of holographic transport and energy loss for the hot and baryon-dense QGP

Musa R. Khan, Ayrton Nascimento, Yumu Yang +5

We investigate several transport coefficients across the phase diagram of a holographic Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) model of hot and dense QCD with flavors. Our result…

gr-qc2026

Dynamical tidal response of neutron stars as a probe of dense-matter properties

Abhishek Hegade K. R., Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert +3

Dynamical tidal deformations play a crucial role in the gravitational waves emitted by binary neutron star systems during their late inspiral. In this work, we systematically explo…

nucl-th2026

Merging multidimensional equations of state of strongly interacting matter via a statistical mixture

Yumu Yang, Prachi Garella, Musa R. Khan +7

We introduce a general method to merge multidimensional equations of state (EoSs) by combining them in a two-fluid equilibrium statistical mixture in the grand canonical ensemble.…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

Lattice-based equation of state with a critical point from constant entropy contours and its comparison to effective QCD approaches

Hitansh Shah, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +2

In this work, we systematically assess the performance of a new method from [H. Shah et al., Phys. Rev. C 113, L012201] for locating the QCD critical point using constant-entropy c…

nucl-th2025

Symmetry Energy of 2+1-flavor dense quark matter from perturbative QCD

Isabella Danhoni, Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert +1

The symmetry energy expansion was developed to connect isospin symmetric matter probed in nuclear experiments to asymmetric matter found in neutron stars. Using the isospin asymmet…

gr-qc2025

Flux-Conservative BDNK Hydrodynamics and Shock Regularization

Nicolas Clarisse, Eduardo O. Pinho, Teerthal Patel +3

We present a new, first-order, flux-conservative formulation of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics in the BDNK framework, applicable to conformal and nonconformal fluids at zero ch…

hep-ph2025

Searching for the QCD critical point through constant entropy density contours

Hitansh Shah, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +2

We propose a novel method to locate the QCD critical point by constructing an expansion along contours of constant entropy density. Applying two independent analysis of lattice QCD…

nucl-th2025

A new effective theory for stochastic relativistic hydrodynamics

Nicki Mullins, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha

Thermal fluctuations are a fundamental feature of dissipative systems that are essential for understanding physics near the expected critical point of QCD and in small systems. Whe…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Chiral symmetry breaking and pion condensation in the early universe

Osvaldo Ferreira, Eduardo S. Fraga, Maurício Hippert +1

We determine the possible trajectories the universe may have followed in the QCD phase diagram during the QCD epoch. We focus on the roles of chiral symmetry breaking and pion cond…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 1 cited

Emergent Viscous Hydrodynamics From a Single Quantum Particle

Zhi-Li Zhou, Mauricio Hippert, Nicki Mullins +1

We investigate an explicit example of how spatial decoherence can lead to hydrodynamic behavior in the late-time, long-wavelength regime of open quantum systems. We focus on the ca…

nucl-th2025

Symmetry Energy Expansion with Strange Dense Matter

Yumu Yang, Nikolas Cruz Camacho, Mauricio Hippert +1

The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram at large densities and low temperatures can be probed using both neutron stars and low-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-ion collisi…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Symmetry energy dependence of the bulk viscosity of nuclear matter

Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert, Enrico Speranza +1

We clarify how the weak-interaction-driven bulk viscosity and the bulk relaxation time of neutrino-transparent matter depend on the nuclear symmetry energy. We show…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Building Neutron Stars with the MUSES Calculation Engine

Mateus Reinke Pelicer, Nikolas Cruz-Camacho, Carlos Conde +25

Exploring the equation of state of dense matter is an essential part of interpreting the observable properties of neutron stars. We present here the first results for dense matter…

nucl-th2025

Effective action for relativistic hydrodynamics from Crooks fluctuation theorem

Nicki Mullins, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha

A new effective theory framework for fluctuating hydrodynamics in the relativistic regime is derived using standard thermodynamical principles and general properties of non-equilib…

hep-ph2024★ 10 cited

Locating the QCD critical point through contours of constant entropy density

Hitansh Shah, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +2

We propose a new method to investigate the existence and location of the conjectured high-temperature critical point of strongly interacting matter via contours of constant entropy…

hep-th2024

Dispersive interaction between two atoms in Proca Quantum Electrodynamics

Gabriel Camacho de Pinho, Carlos Augusto Domingues Zarro, Carlos Farina +2

We analyze the influence of a massive photon in the dispersive interaction between two atoms in their fundamental states. We work in the context of Proca Quantum Electrodynamics. T…

nucl-th2024

Upper Bound on the Speed of Sound in Nuclear Matter from Transport

Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha, Paul Romatschke

We point out that there is an upper bound on the speed of sound squared given by valid for all known systems described by relativistic transient hydrodynamics wh…

nucl-th2024

Causal and Stable Relativistic Hydrodynamic Fluctuations

Nicki Mullins, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +1

When two nuclei collide close to the speed of light, a fluid state known as the quark-gluon plasma is formed. Attempts to understand the dynamics of this fluid have generated signi…