Eur. Phys. J. C (2018) 78: 420
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5916-8

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Nonperturbative QCD thermodynamics in the external magnetic field

State Research Center Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 117218, Russia

^* e-mail: andreichicov@mail.ru

Received: 17 January 2018
Accepted: 19 May 2018
Published online: 28 May 2018

Abstract

The thermodynamics of quarks and gluons strongly depends on the vacuum colormagnetic field, which grows with the temperature T, so that spatial string tension . We investigate below what happens when one imposes in addition constant magnetic field and discover remarkable structure of the resulting thermodynamic potential.