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Dual condensates at finite isospin chemical potential

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-02-17 v1

Abstract

The dual observables as order parameters for center symmetry are tested at finite isospin chemical potential μI\mu_I in a Polyakov-loop enhanced chiral model of QCD with physical quark masses. As a counterpart of the dressed Polyakov-loop, the first Fourier moment of pion condensate is introduced for μI>mπ/2\mu_I>{m_\pi}/{2} under the temporal twisted boundary conditions for quarks. We demonstrate that this dual condensate exhibits the similar temperature dependence as the conventional Polyakov-loop. We confirm that its rapid increase with TT is driven by the evaporating of pion condensation. On the other hand, the dressed Polyakov-loop shows abnormal thermal behavior, which even decreases with TT at low temperatures due to the influence of pion condensate. We thus argue that in QCD the critical temperature extracting from a dual observable may have nothing to do with the quark confinement-deconfinement transition if the quark mass is very small.

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@article{arxiv.1507.07224,
  title  = {Dual condensates at finite isospin chemical potential},
  author = {Zhao Zhang and Qing Miao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07224},
  year   = {2016}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures