Finite-density massless two-color QCD at the isospin Roberge-Weiss point and the 't Hooft anomaly

We study the phase diagram of two-flavor massless two-color QCD (QC_{2}D) under the presence of quark chemical potentials and imaginary isospin chemical potentials. At the special point of the imaginary isospin chemical potential, called the isospin Roberge-Weiss (RW) point, two-flavor QC_{2}D enjoy...

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Main Authors: Takuya Furusawa, Yuya Tanizaki, Etsuko Itou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-08-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033253
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Summary:We study the phase diagram of two-flavor massless two-color QCD (QC_{2}D) under the presence of quark chemical potentials and imaginary isospin chemical potentials. At the special point of the imaginary isospin chemical potential, called the isospin Roberge-Weiss (RW) point, two-flavor QC_{2}D enjoys the Z_{2} center symmetry that acts on both quark flavors and the Polyakov loop. We find a Z_{2} 't Hooft anomaly of this system, which involves the Z_{2} center symmetry, the baryon-number symmetry, and the isospin chiral symmetry. Anomaly matching, therefore, constrains the possible phase diagram at any temperatures and quark chemical potentials at the isospin RW point, and we compare it with previous results obtained by chiral effective field theory and lattice simulations. We also point out an interesting similarity of two-flavor massless QC_{2}D with (2+1)-dimensional quantum antiferromagnetic systems.
ISSN:2643-1564