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arxiv: 0902.1778 · v2 · submitted 2009-02-10 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

How many phases meet at the chiral critical point?

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keywords chiralcriticaldiagramphasephasespointinhomogeneouspreferred
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We explore the phase diagram of NJL-type models near the chiral critical point allowing for phases with spatially inhomogeneous chiral condensates. In the chiral limit it turns out that the region in the mean-field phase diagram where those phases are energetically preferred very generically reaches out to the chiral critical point. The preferred inhomogeneous ground state in this vicinity possibly resembles a lattice of domain wall solitons. This raises the question of their relevance for the phase diagram of QCD.

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