Chemical potential and the gap equation

Details Chemical potential and the gap equation Chemical potential and the gap equation

2008-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/0807.2755v1

Phys.Rev.D78:116015,2008

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

12 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.116015

In general the kernel of QCD's gap equation possesses a domain of analyticity upon which the equation's solution at nonzero chemical potential is simply obtained from the in-vacuum result through analytic continuation. On this domain the single-quark number- and scalar-density distribution functions are mu-independent. This is illustrated via two models for the gap equation's kernel. The models are alike in concentrating support in the infrared. They differ in the form of the vertex but qualitatively the results are largely insensitive to the Ansatz. In vacuum both models realise chiral symmetry in the Nambu-Goldstone mode and in the chiral limit, with increasing chemical potential, exhibit a first-order chiral symmetry restoring transition at mu~M(0), where M(p^2) is the dressed-quark mass function. There is evidence to suggest that any associated deconfinement transition is coincident and also of first-order.

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