Effect of strong magnetic field on competing order parameters in two-flavor dense quark matter
arXiv:1701.02561 · doi:10.1155/2017/6472909
Abstract
We study the effect of strong magnetic field on competing chiral and diquark order parameters in a regime of moderately dense quark matter. The inter-dependence of the chiral and diquark condensates through nonperturbative quark mass and strong coupling effects is analyzed in a two-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model. In the weak magnetic field limit, our results agree qualitatively with earlier zero-field studies in the literature that find a critical coupling ratio below which chiral or superconducting order parameters appear almost exclusively. Above the critical ratio, there exists a significant mixed broken phase region where both gaps are non-zero. However, a strong magnetic field G disrupts this mixed broken phase region and changes a smooth crossover found in the weak-field case to a first-order transition for both gaps at almost the same critical density. Our results suggest that in the two-flavor approximation to moderately dense quark matter, strong magnetic field enhances the possibility of a mixed phase at high density, with implications for the structure, energetics and vibrational spectrum of neutron stars.
23 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted in Advances in High Energy Physics. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0912.1413
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