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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 14: Schwerionenkollisionen und QCD Phasen

HK 14.3: Talk

Monday, March 19, 2012, 17:15–17:30, P 5

Chiral crystals and inhomogeneous islands — •Stefano Carignano and Michael Buballa — Institut fuer Kernphysik, TU Darmstadt

I will discuss some recent developments in the study of inhomogeneous chiral symmetry breaking phases within the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. In particular, after briefly introducing the formalism, I will compare different kinds of possible crystalline shapes for a spatially modulated chiral condensate, in order to determine which is the energetically favored way for the system to spontaneously break chiral symmetry.