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arxiv: 1311.2512 · v2 · pith:5KNBL36Fnew · submitted 2013-11-11 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-lat· hep-th

Exact high temperature expansion of the one-loop thermodynamic potential with complex chemical potential

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keywords potentialtildechemicalthermodynamiccomplexexpansioncoefficientsexact
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We present a derivation of an exact high temperature expansion for a one-loop thermodynamic potential $\Omega(\tilde{\mu})$ with complex chemical potential $\tilde{\mu}$. The result is given in terms of a single sum the coefficients of which are analytical functions of $\tilde{\mu}$ consisting of polynomials and polygamma functions, decoupled from the physical expansion parameter $\beta m$. The analytic structure of the coefficients permits us to explicitly calculate the thermodynamic potential for the imaginary chemical potential and analytically continue the domain to the complex $\tilde{\mu}$ plane. Furthermore, our representation of $\Omega(\tilde{\mu})$ is particularly well suited for the Landau--Ginzburg-type of phase transition analysis. This fact, along with the possibility of interpreting the imaginary chemical potential as an effective generalized-statistics phase, allows us to investigate the singular origin of the $m^3$ term appearing only in the bosonic thermodynamic potential.

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