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Deconfinement in Matrix Models about the Gross--Witten Point
Adrian Dumitru, Jonathan Lenaghan, Robert D. Pisarski
We study the deconfining phase transition in SU(N) gauge theories at nonzero temperature using a matrix model of Polyakov loops. The most general effective action, including all te…
Renormalized Polyakov Loops, Matrix Models and the Gross-Witten Point
Adrian Dumitru, Jonathan T. Lenaghan
The values of renormalized Polyakov loops in the three lowest representations of SU(3) were measured numerically on the lattice. We find that in magnitude, condensates respect the…
The Abelianization of QCD Plasma Instabilities
Peter Arnold, Jonathan Lenaghan
QCD plasma instabilities appear to play an important role in the equilibration of quark-gluon plasmas in heavy-ion collisions in the theoretical limit of weak coupling (i.e. asympt…
QCD Plasma Instabilities and Bottom-Up Thermalization
Peter Arnold, Jonathan Lenaghan, Guy D. Moore
We study the role of QCD plasma instabilities in non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasmas. First, we argue that such instabilities must drastically modify the "bottom-up" thermalization…
Fluctuation Induced Critical Behavior at Non-Zero Temperature and Chemical Potential
K. Splittorff, J. T. Lenaghan, J. Wirstam
We discuss phase transitions in relativistic systems as a function of both chemical potential and temperature. The presence of a chemical potential explicitly breaks Lorentz invari…
Melting the Diquark Condensate in Two-Color QCD: A Renormalization Group Analysis
J. Wirstam, J. T. Lenaghan, K. Splittorff
We use a Landau theory and the epsilon expansion to study the superfluid phase transition of two-color QCD at nonzero temperature, T, and baryonic chemical potential, mu. At low T,…