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Chiral multicritical points driven by isospin density in the Ginzburg-Landau approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-11 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study how a chiral tricritical point (TCP) on QCD phase diagram is affected by the imbalance of up and down quark densities (isospin density), using the generalized Ginzburg-Landau (GL) approach. The resulting phase diagram near TCP shows a rich fine structure which includes inhomogeneities of both the chiral and the charged pion condensations. It turns out that the TCP splits into multicritical points.

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@article{arxiv.1209.1306,
  title  = {Chiral multicritical points driven by isospin density in the Ginzburg-Landau approach},
  author = {Yuhei Iwata and Hiroaki Abuki and Katsuhiko Suzuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.1306},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 eps figures. Presented at QCD@Work 2012: International Workshop on QCD - Theory and Experiment, June 18-21, Lecce (Italy)