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Chiral Disorder and QCD at Finite Chemical Potential

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We investigate the effects of a finite chemical potential μ\mu in QCD viewed as a disordered medium. In the quenched approximation, A4=iμA_4=i\mu induces a complex electric Aharonov-Bohm effect that causes the diagonal contribution to the quark return probability to vanish at μ=mπ/2\mu=m_{\pi}/2 (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 1.5ρ0<ρ<3ρ01.5\rho_0<\rho<3\rho_0, where ρ0\rho_0 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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