Spatially modulated chiral condensates
arXiv:1702.03547 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/981/1/012011
Abstract
I discuss some properties of spatially dependent chiral condensates, focusing on one-dimensional modulations. After briefly introducing a generic formalism for studying inhomogeneous solutions in dense quark matter, I consider a plane-wave and a sinusoidal ansatz, and discuss the relationship between their order parameters and free energies, as well as a comparison of their dispersion relations. I then introduce a real kink crystal, and discuss its relationship with the sinusoidal ansatz by performing a Fourier analysis of this kind of solution.
Contribution to the proceedings of TNPI2016. 7 pages, 4 figures
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