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Universal mechanism of (semi-classical) deconfinement and theta-dependence for all simple groups
Erich Poppitz, Thomas Schaefer, Mithat Unsal
Using the twisted partition function on R^3 x S^1, we argue that the deconfinement phase transition in pure Yang-Mills theory for all simple gauge groups is continuously connected…
Bulk viscosity, chemical equilibration and flow at RHIC
Thomas Schaefer, Kevin Dusling
We study the effects of bulk viscosity on p_T spectra and elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. We argue that direct effect of the bulk viscosity on the evolution of the v…
Quasiclassical molecular dynamics for the dilute Fermi gas at unitarity
Kevin Dusling, Thomas Schaefer
We study the dilute Fermi gas at unitarity using molecular dynamics with an effective quantum potential constructed to reproduce the quantum two-body density matrix at unitarity. R…
Strongly Correlated Quantum Fluids: Ultracold Quantum Gases, Quantum Chromodynamic Plasmas, and Holographic Duality
Allan Adams, Lincoln D. Carr, Thomas Schaefer +2
Strongly correlated quantum fluids are phases of matter that are intrinsically quantum mechanical, and that do not have a simple description in terms of weakly interacting quasi-pa…
Continuity, Deconfinement, and (Super) Yang-Mills Theory
Erich Poppitz, Thomas Schaefer, Mithat Unsal
We study the phase diagram of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory with one adjoint Weyl fermion on R^3xS^1 as a function of the fermion mass m and the compactification scale L. This theory red…