Eur. Phys. J. A (2017) 53: 138
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12302-x

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Nonperturbative SU(3) thermodynamics and the phase transition

¹ Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218, Moscow, Russia
² National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”, 115409, Moscow, Russia
³ Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia

^* e-mail: lukashov@phystech.edu

Received: 30 January 2017
Accepted: 2 May 2017
Published online: 26 June 2017

Abstract

The SU(3) equations of state (P(T), s(T), I(T)) are calculated within the Field Correlator Method both in the confined and the deconfined phases. The basic dynamics in our approach is contained in the vacuum correlators, both of the colorelectric (CE) and colormagnetic (CM) types, which ensure CE and CM confinement below and CM confinement and Polyakov loops above . The resulting values of and P(T), I(T), s(T) are in good agreement with lattice measurements.