Abstract
Abstract
We determine the QCD equation of state at nonzero temperature in the presence of an isospin asymmetry between the light quark chemical potentials on the lattice. Our simulations employ Nf = 2 + 1 flavors of dynamical staggered quarks at physical masses, using three different lattice spacings. The main results, obtained at the individual lattice spacings, are based on a two-dimensional spline interpolation of the isospin density, from which all relevant quantities can be obtained analytically. In particular, we present results for the pressure, the interaction measure, the energy and entropy densities, as well as the speed of sound. Remarkably, the latter is found to exceed its ideal gas limit deep in the pion condensed phase, the first account of the violation of this limit in first principles QCD. Finally, we also compute the phase diagram in the temperature — isospin density plane for the first time. Even though the results are not continuum extrapolated and thus not final, the data for all observables will be useful for the benchmarking of effective theories and low-energy models of QCD and are provided in ancillary files for simple reuse.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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