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QCD at small non-zero quark chemical potentials

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We study the effects of small chemical potentials associated with the three light quark flavors in QCD. We use a low-energy effective field theory that solely relies on the symmetries of the QCD partition function. We find three different phases: a normal phase, a pion superfluid phase and a kaon superfluid phase. The two superfluid phases are separated by a first order phase transition, whereas the normal phase and either of the superfluid phases are separated by a second order phase transition. We compute the quark-antiquark condensate, the pion condensate and the kaon condensate in each phase, as well as the isospin density, the strangeness density, and the mass spectrum.

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hep-ph 3

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2026 2 2019 1

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Minimal superfluid vortices in chiral perturbation theory

hep-ph · 2026-06-03 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

Leading order chiral perturbation theory yields the minimal energy condition for vortex nucleation in the pion condensed phase, with vortices carrying quantized angular momentum and self-confining pions.

Strangeness neutrality and the QCD phase diagram

hep-ph · 2019-07-18 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

Strangeness neutrality imposes a constraint linking baryon-strangeness correlations to the QCD equation of state, with their dependence on freeze-out conditions computed in a 2+1 flavor Polyakov-quark-meson model using the functional renormalization group.

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  • Dilepton Production as a Probe of Pion Condensation in Hot and Dense QCD Matter hep-ph · 2026-04-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 14

    Dilepton yields in isospin-asymmetric QCD matter exhibit low-mass enhancement and a plateau in the pion-condensed phase, distinguishing it from chirally broken or restored phases.

  • Minimal superfluid vortices in chiral perturbation theory hep-ph · 2026-06-03 · unverdicted · none · ref 33 · internal anchor

    Leading order chiral perturbation theory yields the minimal energy condition for vortex nucleation in the pion condensed phase, with vortices carrying quantized angular momentum and self-confining pions.

  • Strangeness neutrality and the QCD phase diagram hep-ph · 2019-07-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 22 · internal anchor

    Strangeness neutrality imposes a constraint linking baryon-strangeness correlations to the QCD equation of state, with their dependence on freeze-out conditions computed in a 2+1 flavor Polyakov-quark-meson model using the functional renormalization group.