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Dynamical stabilization of runaway potentials at finite density

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 Superconductivity High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study four dimensional non-abelian gauge theories with classical moduli. Introducing a chemical potential for a flavor charge causes moduli to become unstable and start condensing. We show that the moduli condensation in the presence of a chemical potential generates nonabelian field strength condensates. These condensates are homogeneous but non-isotropic. The end point of the condensation process is a stable homogeneous, but non-isotropic, vacuum in which both gauge and flavor symmetries and the rotational invariance are spontaneously broken. Possible applications of this phenomenon for the gauge theory/string theory correspondence and in cosmology are briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0609031,
  title  = {Dynamical stabilization of runaway potentials at finite density},
  author = {Alex Buchel and Junji Jia and V. A. Miransky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0609031},
  year   = {2008}
}

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