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Publications and source records attributed to Sixue, Qin.
We describe briefly the Dyson-Schwinger equation approach of QCD and the study of the QCD phase diagram in this approach. The phase diagram in terms of the temperature and chemical potential, and that in the space of coupling strength and current-quark mass are given.
The maximum entropy method is used to calculate the dressed-quark spectral density from the self-consistent solution of the rainbow-truncated gap equation of QCD at temperatures above T{sub c}, the critical temperature for chiral symmetry restoration. We find that, besides the normal and plasmino modes, the spectral function exhibits an essentially nonperturbative zero mode at the temperatures above but near T{sub c}. In the vicinity of T{sub c}, this long-wavelength mode contains the bulk of the spectral strength. So long as this mode persists, the system may reasonably be described as a strongly-coupled state of matter.
We introduce a method based on chiral susceptibility, which enables one to draw a phase diagram in the chemical-potential-temperature plane for strongly interacting quarks whose interactions are described by any reasonable gap equation, even if the diagrammatic content of the quark-gluon vertex is unknown. We locate a critical end point at ({mu}{sup E},T{sup E}){approx}(1.0,0.9)T{sub c}, where T{sub c} is the critical temperature for chiral-symmetry restoration at {mu}=0, and find that a domain of phase coexistence opens at the critical end point whose area increases as a confinement length scale grows.