Towards a theory of instantons at nonzero fermion density

A formalism to study light fermions at non-zero chemical potential in the instanton medium is presented. It is then applied to investigate chiral symmetry restoration and diquark condensation at finite baryon density.

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12 pages LaTeX, 3 figures incl.; to appear in Proceedings of the Intl Workshop on QCD at Finite Baryon Density, Bielefeld, Germany, April 1998

talk: Bielefeld 1998/04/27
quantum chromodynamics: vacuum state
instanton
fermion: effective action
potential: chemical
symmetry: chiral
diquark: condensation
baryon: density
quark: condensation
zero mode

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