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20122026
most citedChiral crossover in QCD at zero and non-zero chemical potentials

638 citations · 1.2k across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

nucl-th2026

Axial Symmetry Breaking in Hot QCD: From Topology to the Chiral Phase Transition

Heng-Tong Ding

Heating matter can restore symmetries spontaneously broken at low temperature. The axial symmetry of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is different: it is present in the classica…

hep-lat2026

QCD Chiral Crossover Line from Lee-Yang Edge Singularities

Heng-Tong Ding, Swagato Mukherjee, Peter Petreczky +1

We propose a universality-based reconstruction of the QCD chiral crossover line from Lee-Yang edge singularities in the complex baryon chemical potential plane. The framework maps…

hep-lat2026

Static Quark-Antiquark Interactions Under Rotation

Heng-Tong Ding, Olaf Kaczmarek, Ran Luo +1

We study static quark--antiquark interactions in rotating SU(3) gluodynamics using quenched lattice simulations at imaginary angular velocity. At zero temperature, we extract the s…

hep-lat2026

Chiral and symmetries in background magnetic fields from lattice QCD

Heng-Tong Ding, José Javier Hernández Hernández, Dan Zhang

We study chiral symmetry and singlet symmetry in QCD in a background magnetic field using lattice QCD. We first clarify the neutral-sector symmetry structure in a pure mag…

hep-lat2026

Isospin-Driven Splitting of Chemical Potentials in Isobar Collisions from Lattice QCD

Heng-Tong Ding, Jin-Biao Gu, Arpith Kumar +1

Strong magnetic fields produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions can modify fluctuations of conserved charges and, consequently, their associated chemical potentials. We presen…

hep-lat2026

QCD in strong magnetic fields: fluctuations of conserved charges and equation of state

Heng-Tong Ding, Jin-Biao Gu, Arpith Kumar +1

We present continuum-estimated (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD results for second-order fluctuations of conserved charges and the leading-order equation of state in the presence of strong…

hep-lat2026

Lattice QCD at finite temperature and density

Heng-Tong Ding

I review recent lattice results on strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, with emphasis on the finite-temperature QCD transition at , its approach toward the…

hep-lat2026★ 3 cited

Chiral Properties of -Flavor QCD in Magnetic Fields at Zero Temperature

Heng-Tong Ding, Dan Zhang

We present a lattice QCD study of the chiral properties of -flavor QCD in background magnetic fields at zero temperature with physical pion masses. Simulations are perfo…

hep-lat2026★ 1 cited

Shear and bulk viscosities of the gluon plasma across the transition temperature from lattice QCD

Heng-Tong Ding, Hai-Tao Shu, Cheng Zhang

We investigate the temperature dependence of the shear viscosity () and bulk viscosity () of the gluon plasma using lattice QCD over the range 0.76--2.25, extending fr…

hep-lat2026

Lattice-QCD validation of hadron mass and trace-anomaly decomposition sum rules

Dennis Bollweg, Heng-Tong Ding, Xiang Gao +2

We present the first lattice-QCD validation of multiple sum rules associated with quark-gluon decomposition of hadron mass by computing all components from first principles. We ach…

hep-lat2026

QCD Crossover at Low Temperatures from Lee-Yang Edge Singularity

D. A. Clarke, H. -T. Ding, J. -B. Gu +6

We provide the first lattice-QCD estimate of the crossover line down to ~MeV. We introduce a new method that combines the Lee-Yang edge in the complex plane of baryon c…

hep-lat2025

QCD in strong magnetic fields: fluctuations of conserved charges and EoS

Heng-Tong Ding, Jin-Biao Gu, Arpith Kumar +1

Strong magnetic fields can profoundly affect the equilibrium properties, characterized by the equation of state and bulk thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter. Although suc…

hep-lat2025

Baryon Electric Charge Correlation as QCD Magnetometer

Heng-Tong Ding, Jin-Biao Gu, Arpith Kumar +1

The detection of strong magnetic fields in peripheral heavy-ion collisions is crucial for observing effects such as the chiral magnetic effect but has proven exceptionally difficul…

hep-lat2025

Leading-Order QCD Equation of State in Strong Magnetic Fields at Nonzero Baryon Chemical Potential

Heng-Tong Ding, Jin-Biao Gu, Arpith Kumar +1

We present continuum-estimated -flavor lattice QCD results for the leading-order Taylor expansion coefficients of the equation of state in strong magnetic fields and at nonz…

hep-lat2025

Second order fluctuations of conserved charges in external magnetic fields

Heng-Tong Ding, Jin-Biao Gu, Arpith Kumar +1

We present a first-principles lattice QCD investigation of second-order fluctuations of and correlations among conserved charges -- baryon number (B), electric charge (Q), and stra…

hep-lat2025

Pseudoscalar Screening Mass at Finite Temperature and Magnetic Field from Lattice QCD with Physical Quark Masses

Rishabh Thakkar, Heng-Tong Ding, Jin-Biao Gu +1

Understanding the screening mass of pseudoscalar mesons at finite temperature and magnetic field is crucial for comprehending the behavior of strongly interacting matter under extr…

hep-lat2025

QCD Equation of State with Strong Magnetic Fields and Nonzero Baryon Density

Heng-Tong Ding, Jin-Biao Gu, Arpith Kumar +1

In this work, we have carried out lattice simulations of -flavor QCD using highly improved staggered quarks at the physical pion mass on and …

hep-lat2025

Baryon-Electric Charge Correlations and Chemical Potentials as Probes of Magnetized QCD

Heng-Tong Ding, Jin-Biao Gu, Arpith Kumar +2

We present the first lattice QCD results of quadratic fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges in (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD in the presence of a background magnetic field.…

hep-lat2025

Non-relativistic QCD Study of Excited Bottomonia at Finite Temperatures on a Fine Lattice

Heng-Tong Ding, Wei-Ping Huang, Rasmus Larsen +3

The temperature dependence of bottomonium correlators up to the 3S and 3P excited states are presented in the range MeV. These lattice calculations employ the no…

hep-lat2025★ 8 cited

Chiral condensates and screening masses of neutral pseudoscalar mesons from lattice QCD at physical quark masses

Heng-Tong Ding, Jin-Biao Gu, Sheng-Tai Li +1

We investigate the effects of temperature and external magnetic fields on the chiral condensates and screening masses of neutral pseudoscalar mesons, including , $K^0…

hep-lat2024

Charmed meson masses and decay constants in the continuum from the tadpole improved clover ensembles

Hai-Yang Du, Bolun Hu, Mengchu Cai +10

We present the determination of the charm quark mass, the masses, and decay constants of charmed mesons using thirteen 2+1 flavor gauge ensembles at five different lattice spacings…

hep-lat2024

Strangeness-Correlations on the pseudo-critical line in (2+1)-flavor QCD

D. Bollweg, H. -T. Ding, J. Goswami +4

We present some lattice QCD results on first () and second () cumulants of and correlations () among net baryon-number (), strangeness () and elect…

hep-lat2024★ 14 cited

Three-dimensional Imaging of Pion using Lattice QCD: Generalized Parton Distributions

Heng-Tong Ding, Xiang Gao, Swagato Mukherjee +4

In this work, we report a lattice calculation of -dependent valence pion generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness with multiple values of the momentum transfer $…

hep-lat2024★ 22 cited

QCD Predictions for Meson Electromagnetic Form Factors at High Momenta: Testing Factorization in Exclusive Processes

Heng-Tong Ding, Xiang Gao, Andrew D. Hanlon +6

We report the first lattice QCD computation of pion and kaon electromagnetic form factors, , at large momentum transfer up to 10 and 28 , respectively. Ut…