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Order Parameters and Color-Flavor Center Symmetry in QCD 2017, 119 (22) Physical Review LettersJournal
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
Common lore suggests that N-color QCD with massive quarks has no useful order parameters that can be nontrivial at zero baryon density. However, such order parameters do exist when there are n(f) quark flavors with a common mass and d equivalent to gcd(n(f), N) > 1. These theories have a Z(d) color-flavor center symmetry arising from intertwined color center transformations and cyclic flavor permutations. The symmetry realization depends on the temperature, baryon chemical potential, and value of n(f)/N, with implications for conformal window studies and dense quark matter.ISSN
0031-90071079-7114
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Final published versionSponsors
U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-00ER-41132, DE-FG02-04ER41338, DE-SC0013036, DE-FG02-00ER41132, DE-SC0011637]; Los Alamos National Laboratory; University of Regensburg; Alexander von Humboldt foundationAdditional Links
https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.222001ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.222001