3 papers
hep-ph2025
Quark mass dependence of a QCD critical point and structure of the Columbia plot
Julian Bernhardt, Christian S. Fischer
We study the quark-mass dependence of the QCD critical point at varying bare up/down quark masses with fixed strange quark mass. We explore the corresponding second-order critical…
hep-ph2025
New Tool to Detect Inhomogeneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking
Theo F. Motta, Julian Bernhardt, Michael Buballa +1
In this letter, we discuss a novel method to search for inhomogeneous chiral symmetry breaking in theories with fermions. The prime application we have in mind is QCD, but the meth…
hep-ph2024
Inhomogenuous instabilities at large chemical potential in a rainbow-ladder QCD model
Theo F. Motta, Julian Bernhardt, Michael Buballa +1
In this work we continue our efforts to study the existence of a phase with an inhomogeneous, i.e., spatially varying, chiral condensate in QCD. To this end we employ a previously…