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Chiral soliton lattice phase in warm QCD

arXiv:2108.10044 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136767

Abstract

We analyze the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics at low-to-moderate temperature, baryon chemical potential and external magnetic field within chiral perturbation theory at next-to-leading order of the derivative expansion. Our main result is that the anomaly-induced chiral soliton lattice (CSL) phase is stabilized by thermal fluctuations. As a consequence, the CSL state may survive up to temperatures at which chiral symmetry is restored.

6 pages + references, 2 figures; v2: added explicit discussion of power counting

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