XQCD 2018

I give an update on the phase structure of QCD at vanishing and finite temperature and density with functional methods. Specifically results are discussed for the confinement-deconfinement and chiral phase transitions, the nature of these transitions and their interrelation, as well as the thermodynamics and fluctuations observables of QCD. The results on correlation functions are also used...

We present the recent results on the confinement/deconfinement transition in lattice SU(2) QCD with two flavors of quarks at finite quark density and zero temperature. In the region ${\mu }_q$ ∼ 1000 MeV we observe the confinement/deconfinement transition which manifests itself in rising of the Polyakov loop and vanishing of the string tension $\sigma$. After the deconfinement is achieved at...