Non-Fermi Liquid Effects in QCD at High Density
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v2 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study non-Fermi liquid effects due to the exchange of unscreened magnetic gluons in high density QCD by using an effective field theory. A one-loop calculation gives the well known result that magnetic gluons lead to a logarithmic enhancement in the fermion self energy near the Fermi surface. The self energy is of the form , where is the energy of the fermion, , and is the coupling constant. Using an analysis of the Dyson-Schwinger equations we show that, in the weak coupling limit, this result is not modified by higher order corrections even in the regime where the logarithm is large, . We also show that this result is consistent with the renormalization group equation in the high density effective field theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0405053,
title = {Non-Fermi Liquid Effects in QCD at High Density},
author = {Thomas Schaefer and Kai Schwenzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0405053},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, 4 figures