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Two-colour QCD at non-zero quark-number density

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2014-11-17 v1

Abstract

We have simulated two-colour four-flavour QCD at non-zero chemical potential μ\mu for quark number. Simulations were performed on 848^4 and 123×2412^3 \times 24 lattices. Clear evidence was seen for the formation of a colourless diquark condensate which breaks quark number spontaneously, for μ>μcmπ/2\mu > \mu_c \sim m_\pi/2. The transition appears to be second order. We have measured the spectrum of scalar and pseudoscalar bosons which shows clear evidence for the expected Goldstone boson. Our results are in qualitative agreement with those from effective Lagrangians for the potential Goldstone excitations of this theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0105026,
  title  = {Two-colour QCD at non-zero quark-number density},
  author = {J. B. Kogut and D. K. Sinclair and S. J. Hands and S. E. Morrison},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0105026},
  year   = {2014}
}

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22 pages RevTeX, 6 figures in 10 postscript files

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