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most citedChiral phase transition temperature in (2+1)-Flavor QCD

231 citations · 355 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

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-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★ 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-lat2023★ 25 cited

Baryon electric charge correlation as a magnetometer of QCD

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

The correlation between net baryon number and electric charge, , can serve as a magnetometer of QCD. This is demonstrated by lattice QCD computations using the hig…

hep-lat2022★ 1 cited

Fluctuations of conserved charges in strong magnetic fields from lattice QCD

Heng-Tong Ding, Sheng-Tai Li, Jun-Hong Liu +1

We present the first lattice QCD results of the second order fluctuations of and correlations among net baryon number, electric charge and strangeness in (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD i…

hep-lat2021★ 4 cited

Critical behavior towards the chiral limit at vanishing and non-vanishing chemical potentials

Olaf Kaczmarek, Frithjof Karsch, Anirban Lahiri +4

We study the scaling behavior of the (2+1)-flavor QCD crossover region towards the chiral limit with smaller-than-physical light quark mass gauge ensembles, generated using the HIS…

hep-lat2021

Correlated Dirac Eigenvalues and Axial Anomaly in Chiral Symmetric QCD

Heng-Tong Ding, Sheng-Tai Li, Swagato Mukherjee +3

We investigate the Dirac eigenvalue spectrum () to study the microscopic origin of axial anomaly in high temperature phase of QCD. We propose novel relations between the…

hep-lat2020★ 81 cited

Correlated Dirac Eigenvalues and Axial Anomaly in Chiral Symmetric QCD

H. -T. Ding, S. -T. Li, Swagato Mukherjee +3

We introduce novel relations between the derivatives [] of the Dirac eigenvalue spectrum [] with respect to the light sea qua…

hep-lat2020★ 2 cited

Meson masses in external magnetic fields with HISQ fermions

Heng-Tong Ding, Sheng-Tai Li, Swagato Mukherjee +2

We studied the temporal correlation function of mesons in the pseudo-scalar channel in (2+1)-flavor QCD in the presence of external magnetic fields at zero temperature. The simulat…

hep-lat2020

Dirac Eigenvalue spectrum of =2+1 QCD towards the chiral limit using HISQ fermions

Heng-Tong Ding, Olaf Kaczmarek, Frithjof Karsch +4

We utilize the eigenvalue filtering technique combined with the stochastic estimate of the mode number to determine the eigenvalue spectrum. Simulations of (2 + 1)-flavor QCD are p…

hep-lat2019★ 1 cited

Chiral phase transition in (2 + 1)-flavor QCD

Heng-Tong Ding, Prasad Hegde, Olaf Kaczmarek +5

The chiral phase transition temperature is a fundamental quantity of QCD. To determine this quantity we have performed simulations of (2 + 1)-flavor QCD using the Highl…

hep-lat2019★ 231 cited

Chiral phase transition temperature in (2+1)-Flavor QCD

H. -T. Ding, P. Hegde, O. Kaczmarek +8

We present a lattice QCD based determination of the chiral phase transition temperature in QCD with two degenerate, massless quarks and a physical strange quark mass. We propose an…

hep-lat2017★ 2 cited

Chiral phase transition of (2 + 1)-flavor QCD on lattices

Sheng-Tai Li, Heng-Tong Ding

We present updated studies on the chiral phase transition in QCD. Simulations have been carried out using Highly Improved Staggered Quarks (HISQ) on lattices with tempo…