Lattice Simulations with Chemical Potential

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent lattice QCD simulation methods at finite chemical potential and presents results on thermodynamic properties, focusing on the phase transition line and critical endpoint in the QCD phase diagram.

Contribution

It introduces recent simulation techniques for lattice QCD at small chemical potential and applies them to study the phase transition and critical endpoint.

Findings

Identification of the transition line in the QCD phase diagram

Estimation of the critical endpoint location

Results on thermodynamic quantities of QCD matter

Abstract

After giving an overview of recently invented methods for simulating lattice QCD at small mu/T, we discuss some results for bulk thermodynamic quantities of QCD matter coming from those methods. We focus on the transition line and the critical endpoint in the QCD phase diagram.