The QCD phase diagram at nonzero quark density

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Endrodi G ^a,b   Fodor, Z ^b,c,d   Katz, S D ^b   Szabo K K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lattice gauge field theories; Lattice QCD; Lattice quantum field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053147803     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2011)001     Document Type: Article

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