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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 105, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.054035
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- Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Material Sciences and Engineering Division, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0012704]
- U.S. DOE [DE-SC001270]
- B. N. L. under the Lab Directed Research and Development program [18-036]
- U.S. DOE, Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) [DE-SC001270]
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This article analyzes the behavior of quarks coupled to a SU(N-c) gauge theory and explores the scenarios under strong coupling and nonzero density. The findings suggest that, under certain conditions, the dominant excitations near the Fermi surface are gapless bosonic modes rather than baryons.
We analyze the behavior of quarks coupled to a SU(N-c) gauge theory in 1 + 1 dimensions. In the limit of strong coupling, the model reduces to a Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten (WZNW) model. At nonzero density, excitations near the Fermi surface form a non-Fermi liquid. With N-f flavors, the finite density of quarks reduce to a free U(1) field, which governs fluctuations in baryon number, together with a WZNW SU(N-f) nonlinear sigma model at level N-c, from the pion/kaon modes. We compute the singularity in the charge susceptibility at the Fermi surface and the attendant power-law correlations. We suggest that this is relevant to the quarkyonic regime of cold, dense QCD in (3 + 1) dimensions, in the limit that the Fermi surface is covered by many small patches, and the theory is effectively one dimensional. In this regime the dominant excitations near the Fermi surface are not baryons, but gapless bosonic modes.
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