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Quantum Hall liquids in high-density QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-17 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

There exist metastable domain walls of the flavor-singlet meson η\eta for the U(1){\rm U}(1) axial symmetry in two-flavor color superconductivity (2SC) in QCD at large baryon density. We show that, due to the coupling of η\eta to confined SU(2){\rm SU}(2) gluons in the 2SC phase, the effective theory on the domain wall is described by the SU(2)1{\rm SU}(2)_{-1} Chern-Simons theory, which is dual to the U(1)2{\rm U}(1)_{2} Chern-Simons theory. This theory has a spin-1 droplet excitation that does not carry a baryon number, which we identify as a vector meson. We also discuss the effective theories and baryonic droplet excitations on the domain walls of the flavor-singlet mesons in the superfluid phases of QCD at large isospin density and two-color QCD at large baryon density.

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@article{arxiv.2410.07665,
  title  = {Quantum Hall liquids in high-density QCD},
  author = {Kentaro Nishimura and Naoki Yamamoto and Ryo Yokokura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.07665},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages; v2: minor revisions, published version

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