John B. Kogut, Mikhail A. Stephanov

The Phases of Quantum Chromodynamics

From Confinement to Extreme Environments

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reference for graduate students, covering the physical phases of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780521143387
• ISBN-10: 0521143381
• Artikelnr.: 30976026

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Background to spin systems and critical phenomena
3. Gauge fields on a four-dimensional Euclidean lattice
4. Fermions and nonperturbative dynamics in QCD
5. Lattice fermions and chiral symmetry
6. Hamiltonian version of lattice-gauge theory
7. Phase transitions in lattice-gauge theory at high temperatures
8. Physics of QCD at high temperatures and chemical potentials
9. Large chemical potentials and color superconductivity
10. Effective Lagrangians and models of QCD at nonzero chemical potential
11. Lattice-gauge theory at nonzero chemical potential
12. Epilogue
References
Index.