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Latent heat in the chiral phase transition

Masaharu Iwasaki, Hiyoshi Kiuchi

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0305098

Abstract

The chiral phase transition at finite temperature and density is discussed in the framework of the QCD-like gauge field theory. The thermodynamical potential is investigated using a variational approach. Latent heat generated in the first-order phase transition is calculated. It is found that the latent heat is enhanced near the tricritical point and is more than several hundred MeV per quark.

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