Open-quantum-systems approach to in-medium heavy quarkonium dynamics
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Rothkopf, A. (2023) Open-quantum-systems approach to in-medium heavy quarkonium dynamics. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), 2586, 012016 10.1088/1742-6596/2586/1/012016Sammendrag
Heavy quarkonium continues to play a central role in the study of nuclear matter under extremes of temperature and density in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this talk I report on recent developments in the theoretical description of quarkonium in-medium dynamics using the open-quantum systems approach. Not only does it provide a clear interpretation of the imaginary part of the complex heavy-quark potential but also reveals that a subtle interplay between screening and wavefunction decoherence is responsible for the melting of heavy quarkonium states.