How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point?
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Nickel, Marcel Dominik Johannes
Date Issued
April 2009
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
Citation
Nickel, Dominik . “How Many Phases Meet at the Chiral Critical Point?.” Physical Review Letters 103.7 (2009): 072301. (C) 2010 The American Physical Society.
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Abstract
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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.072301
