Novel first-order phase transition and critical points on $SU(3)$ Yang-Mills theory in ${\mathbb{T}}^2\times {\mathbb{R}}^2$

Masakiyo Kitazawa, Daisuke Fujii, Akihiro Iwanaka +1

We investigate the thermodynamics and phase structure of $SU(3)$ Yang-Mills theory on ${\mathbb{T}}^2\times {\mathbb{R}}^2$ with anisotropic spatial volumes in Euclidean spacetime in la…