THE CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS OF QCD

2000/11/30 by Krishna Rajagopal, Frank Wilczek · 17 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Asymptotic freedom #Chiral symmetry #Coupling (piping) #Dense matter #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Neutron star #Particle physics #Phase (matter) #Phase diagram #Physics #QCD matter #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Strange matter #Theoretical physics #astro-ph #cond-mat #hep-ph #hep-th #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/9789812810458_0043

91 pages. latex with sprocl.sty. 6 eps figures. To appear as Chapter 35 in the Festschrift in honor of B. L. Ioffe, "At the Frontier of Particle Physics / Handbook of QCD", M. Shifman, ed., (World Scientific). v2: References corrected

arxiv created 2000/12/13 · openalex publication_date 2001/04/01 · arxiv updated 2016/11/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Important progress in understanding the behavior of hadronic matter at high density has been achieved recently, by adapting the techniques of condensed matter theory. At asymptotic densities, the combination of asymptotic freedom and BCS theory make a rigorous analysis possible. New phases of matter with remarkable properties are predicted. They provide a theoretical laboratory within which chiral symmetry breaking and confinement can be studied at weak coupling. They may also play a role in the description of neutron star interiors. We discuss the phase diagram of QCD as a function of temperature and density, and close with a look at possible astrophysical signatures.

Cited by

• Core-crust transition and crustal fraction of moment of inertia in neutron stars
• Color neutral two-flavor superconducting phase of cold and dense quark matter in the presence of constant magnetic fields
• Neutron star structure with a new force between quarks
• Study of QCD critical point using canonical ensemble method
• Diquark and pion condensation in random matrix models for two-color QCD
• Effective world-sheet theory of color magnetic flux tubes in dense QCD
• Condensates and pressure of two-flavor chiral perturbation theory at nonzero isospin and temperature
• Global strings in high density QCD
• Superconducting phases of strange quark matter in the NJL model
• Baryon asymmetry, dark matter, and quantum chromodynamics
• Exploring phases of dense QCD with compact stars
• The Birth of Quark Stars: Photon-driven Supernovae?
• A diagrammatic derivation of the meson effective masses in the neutral color-flavor-locked phase of quantum chromodynamics
• Quark-hadron continuity under rotation: Vortex continuity or boojum?
• Supersymmetric Lifshitz-like backgrounds from N = 4 SYM with heavy quark density
• Dyson-Schwinger approach to color superconductivity at finite temperature and density
• Black body [wikipedia]