Report on "A Quarkyonic Phase in Dense Two Color Matter"

Journal club talk on arxiv:1001.1682
by Simon Hands, Seyong Kim, Jon-Ivar Skullerud

We present results from simulations of Two Color QCD with two Wilson quark flavors in the presence of a quark chemical potential mu at two different lattice spacings. The equation of state, conformal anomaly, superfluid order parameter and Polyakov line are all discussed. Evidence is given that the transition from hadronic to quark matter, and that from confined to deconfined matter occur at distinct values of mu, lending support to the existence of a quarkyonic phase in this model.