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arxiv: hep-ph/9806479 · v1 · submitted 1998-06-25 · ✦ hep-ph · cond-mat· hep-lat

Chiral Disorder and QCD at Finite Chemical Potential

classification ✦ hep-ph cond-mathep-lat
keywords chemicalcomplexcontributionelectricfinitepotentialprobabilityquark
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We investigate the effects of a finite chemical potential $\mu$ in QCD viewed as a disordered medium. In the quenched approximation, $A_4=i\mu$ induces a complex electric Aharonov-Bohm effect that causes the diagonal contribution to the quark return probability to vanish at $\mu=m_{\pi}/2$ (half the pion mass). In two-color QCD, the weak-localization contribution to the quark return probability remains unaffected causing a mutation in the spectral statistics. In full QCD, the complex electric flux is screened and the light quarks are shown to diffuse asymmetrically with a substantial decrease in the conductivity along the `spatial' directions. Mean-field arguments suggest that a d=1 percolation transition may take place in the range $1.5\rho_0<\rho<3\rho_0$, where $\rho_0$ is nuclear matter density.

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