Chiral Disorder and QCD at Finite Chemical Potential
Abstract
We investigate the effects of a finite chemical potential in QCD viewed as a disordered medium. In the quenched approximation, induces a complex electric Aharonov-Bohm effect that causes the diagonal contribution to the quark return probability to vanish at (half the pion mass). In two-color QCD, the weak-localization contribution to the quark return probability remains unaffected causing a mutation in the spectral statistics. In full QCD, the complex electric flux is screened and the light quarks are shown to diffuse asymmetrically with a substantial decrease in the conductivity along the `spatial' directions. Mean-field arguments suggest that a d=1 percolation transition may take place in the range , where is nuclear matter density.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9806479,
title = {Chiral Disorder and QCD at Finite Chemical Potential},
author = {Romuald A. Janik and Maciej A. Nowak and Gabor Papp and Ismail Zahed},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9806479},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages