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Pion masses in 2-flavor QCD with $\eta$ condensation

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-04-08 v1

Abstract

We investigate the 2-flavor QCD with non-degenerate quark masses at low-energy, using the chiral perturbation theory including the η\eta meson and anomaly effects. For the fixed md0m_d\not=0, the neutral pion becomes massless at two values of mum_u, between which a spontaneously CP broken phase appears with the neutral pion condensation. We then show that the topological susceptibility diverges at these two critical points. We also consider the case of mu=mdm_u=m_d but θ=π\theta=\pi, equivalently mu=mdm_u= - m_d with θ=0\theta = 0 by the chiral rotation and show that the CP symmetry is spontaneously broken by the η\eta condensation at small mm. Around m=0m=0, three pions become Nambu-Goldstone modes, showing non-standard behavior that mπ2=O(m2)m_\pi^2 = O(m^2), which, however, is consistent with the chiral Ward-Takahashi identities.}

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@article{arxiv.1504.01454,
  title  = {Pion masses in 2-flavor QCD with $\eta$ condensation},
  author = {Sinya Aoki and Michael Creutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01454},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures, talk presented at the 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 23-28 June, 2014, Columbia University New York, NY