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Description
Using first-principles numerical simulations, we find a new spatially inhomogeneous phase in a rotating (quark-)gluon plasma in thermal equilibrium. This mixed phase simultaneously contains regions of both confining and deconfining states in thermal equilibrium, separated by a spatial transition. We calculate the critical temperature of the local transition as a function of angular velocity and radius for a full (imaginary) rotating system. An analytic continuation of the results to the domain of real angular frequencies indicates that the confinement phase localizes at the periphery of the rotating system, while the deconfinement phase appears closer to the rotation axis, thus disobeying the naive picture based on a straightforward implementation of the Tolman-Ehrenfest law. Our simulations also reveal unusual mechanical properties of pure gluon plasma.
| Working Group | WG4. QCD models and non-perturbative QCD |
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| Type of oral contribution | Theory |