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Latent heat in the chiral phase transition
The chiral phase transition at finite temperature and density is discussed in
the framework of the QCD-like gauge field theory. The thermodynamical potential
is investigated using a variational approach. Latent heat generated in the
first-order phase transition is calculated. It is found that the latent heat is
enhanced near the tricritical point and is more than several hundred MeV per
quark.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure