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Color superconductivity
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The axial anomaly and the phases of dense QCD
Gordon Baym University of Illinois In collaboration with Tetsuo
Hatsuda, Motoi Tachibana, & Naoki Yamamoto Quark Matter 2008
Jaipur 6 February 2008 Title Color superconductivity Color
superconductivity Phase diagram of equilibrated quark gluon
plasma
Critical point Asakawa-Yazaki 1989. 1st order crossover Karsch
& Laermann, 2003 New critical point in phase diagram:
induced by chiral condensate diquark pairing coupling via axial
anomaly Hatsuda, Tachibana, Yamamoto & GB, PRL 97, (2006)
Yamamoto, Hatsuda, Tachibana & GB, PRD76, (2007) Hadronic
Normal QGP Color SC (asms increases) Order parameters In hadronic
(NG) phase: = color singlet chiral field
a,b,c = color i,j,k = flavor C: charge conjugation In hadronic (NG)
phase: = color singlet chiral field In color superconducting phase
: U(1)A axial anomaly => Coupling viat Hooft 6-quark interaction
dR 3 dLy dLy dR Ginzburg-Landau approach
In neighborhood of transitions, d (pair field) and (chiral field)
are small.Expand free energy (cf. with free energy for d = = 0)in
powers of d and : = chiral + pairing + chiral-pairing interactions
Chiral free energy (from anomaly) m02 3
Pisarski & Wilczek, 1984 m02 3 (from anomaly) a0 becoming
negative => 2nd order transition to broken chiralsymmetry Quark
BCS pairing (diquark) free energy(Iida & GB 2001)
Transition to color superconductivity when 0 becomes negative d
fully invariant under: G = SU(3)LSU(3)RU(1)BU(1)ASU(3)C G =
SU(3)LSU(3)RU(1)BU(1)ASU(3)C
Chiral-diquark coupling: (to fourth order in the fields) tr over
flavor Leading term ("triple boson" coupling) 1 arises from axial
anomaly. Pairing fields generate mass for chiral field. terms
invariant under: G = SU(3)LSU(3)RU(1)BU(1)ASU(3)C Three massless
flavors
Simplest assumption: Color-flavor locking (CFL) Alford, Rajagopal
& Wilczek (1998) then c and termsarise from the anomaly.t Hooft
interaction => has same sign as c (>0) and similar magnitude
From microscopic computations (weak-coupling QCD, NJL) 1 If b <
0, need 6 f-term to stabilize system. Warm-up problem: first ignore
-d couplings : ==0, b>0
=> 1st order chiral transition 2nd order pairing transition
Hadronic (NG) 0, d=0 Normal (NOR) = d=0 T NG= Nambu-Goldstone NOR
2nd order NG CSC COE Coexistence (COE) 0, d 0 Color sup (CSC) = 0,
d 0 Schematic phase diagram 1st order Major modification of phase
diagram via chiral-diquark interplay!
Full G-L free energy with chiral-diquark coupling ( > 0, 0)
Locate phase boundaries and order oftransitions by comparing free
energies: > 0, = 0 b > 0, f = 0 no -d coupling ( = = 0) A=
new critical point Major modification ofphase diagram via
chiral-diquark interplay! Non-zero 0 => qualitatively similar
results Critical point arises because d2, in -d2 term, acts as
external field for , washing out 1st order transition for large
d2-- as in magnetic system in external field. With axial anomaly,
NG-like and CSC-like coexistence phases have same symmetry,
allowing crossover. NG and COE phases realize U(1)B differently and
boundary is sharp. Two massless flavors Assume 2-flavor CSC phase
(2SC) then
(Nf= 2 GL parameters / Nf=3 parameters) No cubic terms; cf. three
flavors: tetracritical pt. bicritical point Phase structure in T
vs.
Mapping the phase diagram from the (a, ) plane to the (T, ) plane
requires dynamical picture to calculate G-L parameters. T COE CSC
Hadronic NG QGP No anomaly-induced critical point for Nf=2 in
SU(3)C or SU(2)C T COE (NG-like) (CSC-like) Hadronic NG QGP
Hadron-quark continuity at low T (Schfer-Wilczek 1999) Schematic
phase structure of dense QCD with two light u,d quarks and a medium
heavy s quark without anomaly Schematic phase structure of dense
QCD with two light u,d quarks and a medium heavy s quark with
anomaly New critical point Finding precise location of new critical
point requires
phenomenological models, and lattice QCD simulation.Too cold to be
accessible experimentally. To make schematic phase diagram more
realistic should include * realistic quark masses * for neutron
stars, charge neutrality and beta equilibrium * interplay with
confinement(characterize by Polyakov loop)[e.g., R. Pisarski, PRD62
(2000); K. Fukushima, PLB591 (2004); C.Ratti, M. Thaler, W. Weise
PRD73 (2006); C.Ratti, S. Rssner and W. Weise, PRD (2007) hep-ph/
].Delineate nature of NG-like coexistence phase. * thermal gluon
fluctuations * possible spatial inhomogeneities (FFLO states)
Hadron-quark matter deconfinement transition vs.
BEC-BCS crossover in cold atomic fermion systems In trapped atoms
continuously transform from molecules to Cooper pairs:D.M. Eagles
(1969) ; A.J. Leggett,J. Phys. (Paris) C7, 19 (1980); P. Nozires
and S. Schmitt-Rink, J. Low Temp Phys. 59, 195 (1985) Pairs shrink
6Li Tc/Tf Tc /Tf e-1/kfa Phase diagram of cold fermions vs.
interaction strength
BCS BEC of di-fermion molecules Temperature Tc Free fermions
+di-fermion molecules Free fermions -1/kf a a>0 a first order
phase transition. ex. nuclear matter using 2 & 3 body
interactions, vs. pert. expansion or bag models. Akmal,
Pandharipande, Ravenhall 1998 Typically conclude transition at 10nm
not reached inneutron stars if high mass neutron stars (M>1.8M)
are observed (e.g., Vela X-1, Cyg X-2) => no quark matter cores
More realistically, expect gradual onset of quark degrees of
freedom in dense matter
Hadronic Normal Color SC New critical point suggests transition to
quark matter is a crossover at low T Consistent with percolation
picture, that as nucleons begin to overlap, quarks percolate [GB,
Physica (1979)] : nperc 0.34 (3/4 rn3)fm-3 Quarks can still be
boundeven if deconfined. Calculation of equation of state remains a
challenge for theorists Continuity of pionic excitations with
increasing density
Low pseudoscalar octet (,K,) goes continuously to high diquark
pseudoscalar. Octet hadron-quark continuity in excited states as
well. T Quark-Gluon Plasma Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner (GOR) relation
Alford, Rajagopal, & Wilczek, 1999 Hadrons Color
superconductivity ? mB Mass spectrum and form of pions at
intermediate density? Ginzburg-Landau effective Lagrangian
Pion at low density Generalized pion at high density Under SU(3)R,L
and Axial anomaly couples to and to quark masses, mq : to O(M)
Generalized pion mass spectrum
Mass eigenstates: = mixed state of & with mixing angle .
Generalized Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation Axial anomalybreaking
U(1)A at very high density Hadron-quark continuity also in excited
states Axial anomaly plays crucial role in pion mass spectrum Pion
mass splitting unstable Conclusion Phase structure of dense quark
matter
Intriguing interplay of chiral and diquark condensates U(1)A axial
anomaly in 3 flavor massless quark matter =>new low temperature
critical point in phase structure of QCD at finite Collective modes
in intermediate density Concrete realization of quark-hadron
continuity Effective field theory at moderate density => pion as
generalized meson;generalized GOR relation Vector mesons, nucleons
and other heavy excitations (Hatsuda, Tachibana, & Yamamoto, in
preparation) Vector meson continuity THE END Toy Model Two complex
scalar fields: Lagrangian: light pion
heavy pion Diagonalize to find mass relations: Continuous crossover
from NG to CSC phases allowed by symmetry
In CFL phase:dLdRy breaks chiral symmetry but preservesZ4 discrete
subgroup of U(1)A. For = 0, different symmetry breaking in two
phases. term has Z6 symmetry, with Z2 as subgroup.With axial
anomaly, NG and CSC-like coexistence phases have same symmetry, and
can be continuously connected. NG and COE phases realize U(1)B
differently and boundary is not smoothed out. In COE phase: breaks
chiral symmetry, preserving only Z2 .