Quark and pion condensates at finite isospin density in chiral perturbation theory

Mar 27, 2020
10 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 80 (2020) 11, 1028
  • Published: Nov 6, 2020
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Abstract: (Springer)
In this paper, we consider two-flavor QCD at zero temperature and finite isospin chemical potential μI\mu _I using a model-independent analysis within chiral perturbation theory at next-to-leading order. We calculate the effective potential, the chiral condensate and the pion condensate in the pion-condensed phase at both zero and nonzero pionic source. We compare our finite pionic source results for the chiral condensate and the pion condensate with recent (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD results. Agreement with lattice results generally improves as one goes from leading order to next-to-leading order.
Note:
  • 10 pages, 4 figures, includes updated figures and corrected typos
  • pi: condensation
  • condensation: chiral
  • perturbation theory: chiral
  • potential: chemical
  • isospin: density
  • temperature: 0
  • higher-order: 1
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • flavor: 2
  • lattice field theory