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QCD Kondo effect for single heavy quark in chiral-symmetry broken phase

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-05-24 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We consider the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) Kondo effect for a single heavy quark in quark matter composed of light quarks with chiral symmetry breaking. Introducing several spinor structures in QCD Kondo condensates, i.e., particle-projected condensate, antiparticle-projected condensate, and normal condensate without projection, we calculate the attractive energy gained by the heavy quark within the mean-field approximation in the path-integral formalism. We show that the normal condensate is favored at low density and the particle-projected condensate is favored at high density, when the light quark has a nonzero mass. We interpret such a density-dependent transition between the two condensates in terms of the Kondo resonances.

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@article{arxiv.2402.11578,
  title  = {QCD Kondo effect for single heavy quark in chiral-symmetry broken phase},
  author = {Shigehiro Yasui and Daiki Suenaga and Kei Suzuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11578},
  year   = {2024}
}

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