Electrical conductivity of the quark-gluon plasma: perspective from lattice QCD

Aarts, Gert; Nikolaev, Aleksandr

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Electrical conductivity of the quark-gluon plasma: perspective from lattice QCD

Gert Aarts

, Aleksandr Nikolaev

The European Physical Journal A, Volume: 57, Issue: 4

Swansea University Authors: Gert Aarts , Aleksandr Nikolaev

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A discussion on the electrical conductivity of the quark-gluon plasma as determined by lattice QCD is given. After a reminder of basic definitions and expectations, various methods for spectral reconstruction are reviewed, including the use of Ansätze and sum rules, the Maximum Entropy and Backus-Gi...

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Electrical conductivity of the quark-gluon plasma: perspective from lattice QCD

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