$\theta-$ Parameter in 2 Color QCD at Finite Baryon and Isospin Density
Abstract
We use 2-color QCD as a model to study the effects of simultaneous presence of the so-called parameter, chemical potentials for baryon number, and for isospin charge, . We pay special attention to , , dependence of different vacuum condensates, including chiral and diquark condensates, as well as the gluon condensate, , and the topological susceptibility. We find that two phase transitions of the second order will occur when relaxes from to , if is of order of the pion mass. We demonstrate that the transition to the superfluid phase at occurs at a much lower chemical potential than at . We also show that the strong dependence present near 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}
}