High Energy / Nuclear Theory / RIKEN Seminars

[NT/RBRC Seminar] Ryan Abbott, MIT. "Lattice QCD at large isospin density: 6144 pions in a box"

US/Eastern
Description

Isospin dense QCD provides a useful system for studying the nonperturbative thermodynamics of QCD, with relevance to systems such as neutron stars. In this talk, I will discuss our recent work (arXiv:2307.15014, arXiv:2406.09273), in which we were able to map out the entirety of the zero temperature, nonzero isospin region of the QCD phase diagram using novel methods for computing multipion correlation functions in Lattice QCD. In particular, I will give an overview of our methodology and results, including how these results provide rigorous bounds on the baryon-dense region of the QCD phase diagram.