TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Michael A1 - Langelage, Jens A1 - Lottini, Stefano A1 - Philipsen, Owe T1 - Strong coupling effective theory with heavy fermions T2 - Proceedings of Science N2 - We extend the recently developed strong coupling, dimensionally reduced Polyakov-loop effective theory from finite-temperature pure Yang-Mills to include heavy fermions and nonzero chemical potential by means of a hopping parameter expansion. Numerical simulation is employed to investigate the weakening of the deconfinement transition as a function of the quark mass. The tractability of the sign problem in this model is exploited to locate the critical surface in the (M/T,m/T,T) space over the whole range of chemical potentials from zero up to infinity. Y1 - 2012 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27318 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-273187 SN - 1112.2979 SN - 1824-8039 N1 - XXIX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory July 10 – 16 2011 Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California VL - 2011 IS - (Lattice 2011)205 PB - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati CY - Trieste ER -