Phases of QCD with nonvanishing isopin density
arXiv:hep-ph/0104282 · doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00923-6
Abstract
The propagation of low-momentum baryons through QCD matter at low isospin density is studied using chiral perturbation theory. When the isospin chemical potential exceeds a critical value, the dispersion relation for the lowest nucleon mode becomes anomalous near zero momentum---increasing momentum yields decreasing energy---so that the momentum for the lowest energy state, p_min, becomes nonzero. This can be interpreted as a new phase of QCD, with p_min serving as the order parameter and the kinetic mass (defined as the inverse of the second derivative of the energy with respect to the momentum at p_min) serving as the susceptibility. A lowest-order chiral-perturbation-theory calculation yields a critical isospin chemical potential of 285 MeV. Since this is small compared to the chiral-symmetry-breaking scale, corrections to it are likely to be modest.
6 pages, 3 eps figures, comment added on leading chiral corrections
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