Variational approach to the inhomogeneous chiral phase in quark matter

2013/07/24 by S. Karasawa, Karasawa, S., T. Tatsumi +1
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.6448

6 pages,3 figures

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Abstract

The inhomogeneous chiral phase is discussed in QCD at finite temperature and/or density. We study the phase diagram on the density-temperature plane by taking into account the effect of the current mass by a variational method. It is demonstrated that our framework well describes the inhomogeneous phase over the whole phase region.

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