How transverse thermal fluctuations disorder a condensate of chiral spirals into a quantum spin liquid

Robert D. Pisarski, Alexei M. Tsvelik, Semeon Valgushev

For a scalar theory with a global $O(N)$ symmetry, when $N=2$ a spatially inhomogeneous condensate arises when the term in the Lagrangian with two spatial derivatives has a negativ…