Inhomogeneous phases in the quark-meson model with vacuum fluctuations

Abstract

Inhomogeneous chiral-symmetry breaking phases at non-vanishing chemical potential and temperature are studied within a two-flavor quark-meson model in the chiral limit. The analysis is performed beyond the standard mean-field approximation by taking into account the Dirac-sea contributions of the quarks. Compared with the case where the Dirac sea is neglected, we find that the inhomogeneous phase shrinks, but in general does not disappear. It is shown within a Ginzburg-Landau analysis that the Lifshitz point of the inhomogeneous phase coincides with the tricritical point if the ratio between sigma-meson and constituent quark mass in vacuum is chosen to be $m_{\sigma }/M=2$, corresponding to the fixed mass ratio in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. In the present model, however, this ratio can be varied, offering the possibility to separate the two points. This is confirmed by our numerical calculations, which demonstrate a strong sensitivity of the size of the inhomogeneous phase on $m_{\sigma }$. Finally, we uncover a general instability of the model with respect to large wave numbers of the chiral modulations, which calls for further improvements beyond the present approximation.

arXiv comment21 pages, 12 figures. v2: extended discussions, to be published in PRD

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