Speaker
Semeon Valgushev
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
We discuss dense cool QCD where a region with spatially inhomogeneous condensate might emerge. In that case, QCD phase diagram may exhibit a Lifshitz regime, which can appear either instead of, or in addition to Critical End Point. We study the Lifshitz regime using a combination of large-N expansion and numerical lattice simulations of an effective O(N) sigma model. We find evidence that quantum fluctuations disorder inhomogeneous condensate ("chiral spirals") and give rise to unusual quantum spin-liquid phase. We also discuss how this novel phase can be detected experimentally.
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Semeon Valgushev
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Primary authors
Alexei Tsvelik
(BNL)
Robert Pisarski
(Brookhaven National Lab.)
Semeon Valgushev
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Fabian Rennecke
Vladimir Skokov
(Brookhaven national laboratory)