Curvature and topological effects on dynamical symmetry breaking in a four- and eight-fermion interaction model

A dynamical mechanism for symmetry breaking is investigated under the circumstances with the finite curvature, finite size and non-trivial topology. A four- and eight-fermion interaction model is considered as a prototype model which induces symmetry breaking at GUT era. Evaluating the effective potential in the leading order of the 1/N-expansion by using the dimensional regularization, we explicitly calculate the phase boundary which divides the symmetric and the broken phase in a weakly curved space-time and a flat space-time with non-trivial topology, $R^{D-1} \otimes S^1$.Comment: 20 pages, 21 figure

Cooper pairing and finite-size effects in a NJL-type four-fermion model

Starting from a NJL-type model with N fermion species fermion and difermion condensates and their associated phase structures are considered at nonzero chemical potential $\mu$ and zero temperature in spaces with nontrivial topology of the form $S^1\otimes S^1\otimes S^1$ and $R^2\otimes S^1$. Special attention is devoted to the generation of the superconducting phase. In particular, for the cases of antiperiodic and periodic boundary conditions we have found that the critical curve of the phase transitions between the chiral symmetry breaking and superconducting phases as well as the corresponding condensates and particle densities strongly oscillate vs $\lambda\sim 1/L$, where $L$ is the length of the circumference $S^1$. Moreover, it is shown that at some finite values of $L$ the superconducting phase transition is shifted to smaller values both of $\mu$ and particle density in comparison with the case of $L=\infty$.Comment: 13 pages, 13 figures; minor changes; new references added; version accepted to PR

Finite size effects in the Gross-Neveu model with isospin chemical potential

The properties of the two-flavored Gross-Neveu model in the (1+1)-dimensional $R^1\times S^1$ spacetime with compactified space coordinate are investigated in the presence of the isospin chemical potential $\mu_I$. The consideration is performed in the limit $N_c\to\infty$, i.e. in the case with infinite number of colored quarks. It is shown that at $L=\infty$ ($L$ is the length of the circumference $S^1$) the pion condensation phase is realized for arbitrary small nonzero $\mu_I$. At finite values of $L$, the phase portraits of the model in terms of parameters $\nu\sim\mu_I$ and $\lambda\sim 1/L$ are obtained both for periodic and antiperiodic boundary conditions of the quark field. It turns out that in the plane $(\lambda,\nu)$ there is a strip $0\le\lambda<\lambda_c$ which lies as a whole inside the pion condensed phase. In this phase the pion condensation gap is an oscillating function vs both $\lambda$ (at fixed $\nu$) and $\nu$ (at fixed $\lambda$).Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures; one reference added; accepted for publication in PR

Mesons and diquarks in the color neutral 2SC phase of dense cold quark matter

The spectrum of meson and diquark excitations of dense color neutral cold quark matter is investigated in the framework of a 2-flavored Nambu--Jona-Lasinio type model, including a quark $\mu$- and color $\mu_8$ chemical potential. It was found out that in the color superconducting (2SC) phase, i.e. at $\mu>\mu_c=342$ MeV, $\mu_8$ aquires rather small values $\sim$ 10 MeV in order to ensure the color neutrality. In this phase the $\pi$- and $\sigma$ meson masses are evaluated around $\sim$ 330 MeV. The spectrum of scalar diquarks in the color neutral 2SC phase consists of a heavy ($\rm SU_c(2)$-singlet) resonance with mass $\sim$ 1100 MeV, four light diquarks with mass $3|\mu_8|$, and one Nambu --Goldstone boson which is in accordance with the Goldstone theorem. Moreover, in the 2SC phase there are five light stable particles as well as a heavy resonance in the spectrum of pseudo-scalar diquarks. In the color symmetric phase, i.e. for $\mu <\mu_c$, a mass splitting of scalar diquarks and antidiquarks is shown to arise if $\mu\ne 0$, contrary to the case of $\mu = 0$, where the masses of scalar antidiquarks and diquarks are degenerate at the value $\sim$~700 MeV. If the coupling strength in the pseudo-scalar diquark channel is the same as in the scalar diquark one (as for QCD-inspired NJL models), then in the color symmetric phase pseudo-scalar diquarks are not allowed to exist as stable particles.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures; version accepted for the publication in PR

Magnetic Oscillations in Dense Cold Quark Matter with Four-Fermion Interactions

The phase structures of Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models with one or two flavours have been investigated at non-zero values of $\mu$ and $H$, where $H$ is an external magnetic field and $\mu$ is the chemical potential. In the phase portraits of both models there arise infinitely many massless chirally symmetric phases, as well as massive ones with spontaneously broken chiral invariance, reflecting the existence of infinitely many Landau levels. Phase transitions of first and second orders and a lot of tricritical points have been shown to exist in phase diagrams. In the massless case, such a phase structure leads unavoidably to the standard van Alphen-de Haas magnetic oscillations of some thermodynamical quantities, including magnetization, pressure and particle density. In the massive case we have found an oscillating behaviour not only for thermodynamical quantities, but also for a dynamical quantity as the quark mass. Besides, in this case we have non-standard, i.e. non-periodic, magnetic oscillations, since the frequency of oscillations is an $H$-dependent quantity.Comment: latex, 29 pages, 8 figure