Ultra-soft fermionic excitation at finite chemical potential
Abstract
It has been suggested previously that an ultra-soft fermionic excitation develops, albeit with a small spectral weight, in a system of massless fermions and scalar bosons with Yukawa interaction at high temperature (). In this paper we study how this excitation is modified at finite chemical potential (). We relate the existence of the ultra-soft mode to symmetries, in particular charge conjugation, and a supersymmetry of the free system which is spontaneously broken by finite temperature and finite density effects, as argued earlier by Lebedev and Smilga. A non vanishing chemical potential breaks both symmetries explicitly, and maximally at zero temperature where the mode ceases to exist. A detailed calculation indicates that the ultra-soft excitation persists as long as .
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@article{arxiv.1402.0241,
title = {Ultra-soft fermionic excitation at finite chemical potential},
author = {Jean-Paul Blaizot and Daisuke Satow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0241},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, 8 figures. v2: Figs. 7 and 8 are added, detailed discussion on value of chemical potential in which the ultrasoft mode persists are added in Sec. III-C