Possible Pseudogap Phase in QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v5 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Thermal pion fluctuations, in principle, can completely disorder the phase of the quark condensate and thus restore chiral symmetry. If this happens before the quark condensate melts, strongly-interacting matter will be in the pseudogap state just above the chiral phase transition. The quark condensate does not vanish locally and quarks acquire constituent masses in the pseudogap phase, despite chiral symmetry is restored.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0104305,
title = {Possible Pseudogap Phase in QCD},
author = {K. Zarembo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0104305},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure; v2: references added; v3: argumerts modified; v4: minor changes; v5: a misprint corrected