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Interplay between chiral symmetry breaking and the QCD Kondo effect

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-12-20 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the interplay between the (light-light quark) chiral condensate and heavy-light quark condensate induced by the QCD Kondo effect, which is described by an effective Lagrangian with four-point interactions and the mean-field approximation. We find that the appearance of Kondo condensates decreases the critical chemical potential of the chiral condensate. In the region near the critical chemical potential, a coexistence phase with two kinds of condensates can appear. The behavior of such an interplay at finite temperature and with nonzero current light-quark mass is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1708.06930,
  title  = {Interplay between chiral symmetry breaking and the QCD Kondo effect},
  author = {Kei Suzuki and Shigehiro Yasui and Kazunori Itakura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.06930},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

9 pages, 7 figures; published version

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