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Pion condensation in holographic QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study pion condensation at zero temperature in a hard-wall holographic model of hadrons with isospin chemical potential. We find that the transition from the hadronic phase to the pion condensate phase is first order except in a certain limit of model parameters. Our analysis suggests that immediately across the phase boundary the condensate acts as a stiff medium approaching the Zel'dovich limit of equal energy density and pressure.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1007.3431,
  title  = {Pion condensation in holographic QCD},
  author = {Dylan Albrecht and Joshua Erlich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.3431},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

19 pages, 7 eps figures

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