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Phase conversion in a weakly first-order quark-hadron transition
A. Bessa, E. S. Fraga, B. W. Mintz
We investigate the process of phase conversion in a thermally-driven {\it weakly} first-order quark-hadron transition. This scenario is physically appealing even if the nature of t…
Can a strong magnetic background modify the nature of the chiral transition in QCD?
Eduardo S. Fraga, Ana Júlia Mizher
The presence of a strong magnetic background can modify the nature and the dynamics of the chiral phase transition at finite temperature: for high enough magnetic fields, comparabl…
On the nucleation of hadronic domains in the quark-hadron transition
B. W. Mintz, A. Bessa, E. S. Fraga
We present numerical results on bubble profiles, nucleation rates and time evolution for a weakly first-order quark-hadron phase transition in different expansion scenarios. We con…
Mass and chemical asymmetry in QCD matter
L. F. Palhares, E. S. Fraga, C. Villavicencio
We consider two-flavor asymmetric QCD combined with a low-energy effective model inspired by chiral perturbation theory and lattice data to investigate the effects of masses, isosp…
Semiclassical calculation of decay rates
A. Bessa, C. A. A. de Carvalho, E. S. Fraga
Several relevant aspects of quantum-field processes can be well described by semiclassical methods. In particular, the knowledge of non-trivial classical solutions of the field equ…
Chiral transition in a strong magnetic background
Eduardo S. Fraga, Ana Júlia Mizher
The presence of a strong magnetic background can modify the nature and the dynamics of the chiral phase transition at finite temperature. We compute the modified effective potentia…