Isospin asymmetric matter in a nonlocal chiral quark model

We analyze the features of strongly interacting matter in the presence of nonzero isospin chemical potential μI, within a nonlocal two-flavor Polyakov-loop extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. For a system at finite temperature T, we describe the behavior of various thermodynamic quantities and...

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Published in:Physical review. D 2021-10, Vol.104 (7), p.1, Article 074018
Main Authors: Carlomagno, J. P., Gómez Dumm, D., Scoccola, N. N.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Chemical potential
Flavor (particle physics)
Phase diagrams
Pions
Quantum chromodynamics
Quark models
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Summary:We analyze the features of strongly interacting matter in the presence of nonzero isospin chemical potential μI, within a nonlocal two-flavor Polyakov-loop extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. For a system at finite temperature T, we describe the behavior of various thermodynamic quantities and study the phase diagram in the μI − T plane. In particular, it is found that for values of μI larger than the pion mass and temperatures lower than a critical value of about 170 MeV the system lies in an isospin symmetry broken phase signalled by the presence of a nonzero pion condensate. Our results for the phase diagram are found to be in better agreement with those arising from lattice QCD calculations, as compared to the predictions from other theoretical approaches like the local PNJL model.
ISSN:2470-0010
2470-0029
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.074018