Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1837424 Nuclear Physics A 2009 27 Pages PDF
Abstract

Magnetic properties of quark matter at finite temperature are discussed by evaluating the magnetic susceptibility. Combining the microscopic calculation of the self-energy for quarks as well as the screening effects for gluons with Fermi-liquid theory in a consistent way, we study the temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility. The longitudinal gluons have the static screening given by the Debye mass, and have a standard temperature dependence of O(T2). An anomalous T2lnT term arises in the magnetic susceptibility as a novel non-Fermi-liquid effect due to the anomalous self-energy for quarks given by the dynamic screening for transverse gluons. We then extract the critical (Curie) temperature and present the magnetic phase diagram on the density–temperature plane.

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