QCD at small non-zero quark chemical potentials
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
We study the effects of small chemical potentials associated with the three light quark flavors in QCD. We use a low-energy effective field theory that solely relies on the symmetries of the QCD partition function. We find three different phases: a normal phase, a pion superfluid phase and a kaon superfluid phase. The two superfluid phases are separated by a first order phase transition, whereas the normal phase and either of the superfluid phases are separated by a second order phase transition. We compute the quark-antiquark condensate, the pion condensate and the kaon condensate in each phase, as well as the isospin density, the strangeness density, and the mass spectrum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0103271,
title = {QCD at small non-zero quark chemical potentials},
author = {J. B. Kogut and D. Toublan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0103271},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, 5 figures