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$\theta-$ Parameter in 2 Color QCD at Finite Baryon and Isospin Density

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We use 2-color QCD as a model to study the effects of simultaneous presence of the so-called θ\theta parameter, chemical potentials for baryon number, μB\mu_B and for isospin charge, μI\mu_I. We pay special attention to θ\theta, μB\mu_B, μI\mu_I dependence of different vacuum condensates, including chiral and diquark condensates, as well as the gluon condensate, <G2><G^2>, and the topological susceptibility. We find that two phase transitions of the second order will occur when θ\theta relaxes from θ=2π\theta=2\pi to θ=0\theta=0, if μ\mu is of order of the pion mass. We demonstrate that the transition to the superfluid phase at θ=π\theta = \pi occurs at a much lower chemical potential than at θ=0\theta = 0. We also show that the strong θ\theta dependence present near θ=π\theta = \pi in vacuum (Dashen's phenomenon), becomes smoothed out in the superfluid phase. Finally, we comment on the relevance of this study for the real world with N_c=3.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0508004,
  title  = {$\theta-$ Parameter in 2 Color QCD at Finite Baryon and Isospin Density},
  author = {Max A. Metlitski and Ariel R. Zhitnitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0508004},
  year   = {2009}
}