How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point?
We explore the phase diagram of Nambu—Jona-Lasinio-type models near the chiral critical point allowing for phases with spatially inhomogeneous chiral condensates. In the chiral limit it turns out that the region in the mean-field phase diagram where those phases are energetically preferred very gene...
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| author | Nickel, Marcel Dominik Johannes |
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| description | We explore the phase diagram of Nambu—Jona-Lasinio-type models near the chiral critical point allowing for phases with spatially inhomogeneous chiral condensates. In the chiral limit it turns out that the region in the mean-field phase diagram where those phases are energetically preferred very generically reaches out to the chiral critical point. The preferred inhomogeneous ground state in this vicinity possibly resembles a lattice of domain wall solitons. This raises the question of their relevance for the phase diagram of QCD. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/513702022-10-01T13:15:13Z How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point? Nickel, Marcel Dominik Johannes Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics Nickel, Marcel Dominik Johannes Nickel, Marcel Dominik Johannes We explore the phase diagram of Nambu—Jona-Lasinio-type models near the chiral critical point allowing for phases with spatially inhomogeneous chiral condensates. In the chiral limit it turns out that the region in the mean-field phase diagram where those phases are energetically preferred very generically reaches out to the chiral critical point. The preferred inhomogeneous ground state in this vicinity possibly resembles a lattice of domain wall solitons. This raises the question of their relevance for the phase diagram of QCD. Department of Energy Cooperative Research Agreement German Research Foundation 2010-02-05T15:31:14Z 2010-02-05T15:31:14Z 2009-04 2009-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0031-9007 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51370 Nickel, Dominik . “How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point?.” Physical Review Letters 103.7 (2009): 072301. (C) 2010 The American Physical Society. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.072301 Physical Review Letters Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
| spellingShingle | Nickel, Marcel Dominik Johannes How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point? |
| title | How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point? |
| title_full | How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point? |
| title_fullStr | How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point? |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point? |
| title_short | How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point? |
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