TY - JOUR A1 - Fraga, Eduardo Souza A1 - Mintz, Bruno W. A1 - Schaffner-Bielich, Jürgen T1 - A search for inverse magnetic catalysis in thermal quark–meson models T2 - Physics Letters B N2 - We explore the parameter space of the two-flavor thermal quark–meson model and its Polyakov loop-extended version under the influence of a constant external magnetic field B. We investigate the behavior of the pseudo critical temperature for chiral symmetry breaking taking into account the likely dependence of two parameters on the magnetic field: the Yukawa quark–meson coupling and the parameter T0 of the Polyakov loop potential. Under the constraints that magnetic catalysis is realized at zero temperature and the chiral transition at B=0 is a crossover, we find that the quark–meson model leads to thermal magnetic catalysis for the whole allowed parameter space, in contrast to the present picture stemming from lattice QCD. Y1 - 2014 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/76996 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-769967 SN - 0370-2693 VL - 731 SP - 154 EP - 158 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -