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Bose-Einstein condensation in dense quark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

We consider the problem of Bose condensation of charged pions in QCD at finite isospin chemical potential μI\mu_I using the O(4)-symmetric linear sigma model as an effective field theory for two-flavor QCD. Using the 2PI 1/N1/N-expansion, we determine the quasiparticle masses as well as the pion and chiral condensates as a function of the temperature and isospin chemical potential in the chiral limit and at the physical point. At T=0, Bose condensation takes place for chemical potentials larger than mπm_{\pi}. In the chiral limit, the chiral condensate vanishes for any finite value of μI\mu_I.

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@article{arxiv.0809.2892,
  title  = {Bose-Einstein condensation in dense quark matter},
  author = {Jens O. Andersen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.2892},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Talk given at Strong and Electroweak matter 2008, Amsterdam August 25-29 2008. Four pages and two figures. 2nd version: typos fixed and updated list of refs

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