The baryon-strangeness correlation in the hadronization of the quark matter is studied within the quark combination mechanism. We calculate the correlation coefficient CBS=−3(⟨BS⟩−⟨B⟩⟨S⟩)/(⟨S2⟩−⟨S⟩2)
Nearby in the stack
of initial hadrons produced from the deconfined free quark system with
CBS(q)=1
. The competition of the production of baryons against that of mesons is the key dynamics that is most relevant to the change of baryon-strangeness correlation during system hadronization. Results of quark combination under the Poisson statistics agree with the statistical model predictions for a hadron resonance gas at vanishing chemical potential but differ from those at relatively large chemical potentials. Results beyond Poisson statistics are also obtained and are compared with calculations of Lattice QCD in the phase boundary, giving the best agreement at temperature
T=163
MeV. We predict the dependence of the
CBS
of hadron system on the baryon chemical potential and strangeness. These predictions are expected to be tested by the future Lattice QCD calculations at non-zero chemical potentials and/or by the Beam Energy Scan experiment of STAR Collaboration at RHIC.