Inhomogeneous chiral phases in two-flavor quark matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2018-09-12 v1
Abstract
We present a systematic study of the phase structure of QCD in a generalized Ginzburg-Landau framework. We find, going up in density, a strongly interacting matter might go through the "pion crystal", an exotic inhomogeneous chiral phase before reaching the full restoration of symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.1512.05025,
title = {Inhomogeneous chiral phases in two-flavor quark matter},
author = {Hiroaki Abuki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.05025},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2 figures, talk given in Quarks and Compact Stars 2014 (QCS2014), Oct. 20-22, 2014, KIAA at Peking University, Beijing, China