Kaon superfluidity in the early universe
Abstract
Previously, it was found that pion superfluidity could be realized in the QCD epoch of the early universe, when lepton flavor asymmetry is large enough to generate a charge chemical potential larger than vacuum pion mass. By following the same logic, kaon superfluidity might also be possible when is so large that becomes larger than vacuum kaon mass. Such a possibility is checked by adopting Ginzburg-Landau approximation within the three-flavor Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. Consider the case with full chemical balance, though kaon superfluidity could be stable compared to the chiral phases with only condensations, it would get killed by the more favored homogeneous pion superfluidity. If we introduce mismatch between and quarks, kaon superfluidity would require so large quark density that such a state is impossible in the early universe.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.07208,
title = {Kaon superfluidity in the early universe},
author = {Gaoqing Cao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.07208},
year = {2024}
}