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Spatially modulated chiral condensates

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-04-04 v1

Abstract

I discuss some properties of spatially dependent chiral condensates, focusing on one-dimensional modulations. After briefly introducing a generic formalism for studying inhomogeneous solutions in dense quark matter, I consider a plane-wave and a sinusoidal ansatz, and discuss the relationship between their order parameters and free energies, as well as a comparison of their dispersion relations. I then introduce a real kink crystal, and discuss its relationship with the sinusoidal ansatz by performing a Fourier analysis of this kind of solution.

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@article{arxiv.1702.03547,
  title  = {Spatially modulated chiral condensates},
  author = {Stefano Carignano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.03547},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Contribution to the proceedings of TNPI2016. 7 pages, 4 figures

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