Neutral Color Superconductivity Including Inhomogeneous Phases at Finite Temperature

We investigate neutral quark matter with homogeneous and inhomogeneous color condensates at finite temperature in the frame of an extended NJL model. By calculating the Meissner masses squared and gap susceptibility, the uniform color superconductor is stable only in a temperature window close to the critical temperature and becomes unstable against LOFF phase, mixed phase and gluonic phase at low temperatures. The introduction of the inhomogeneous phases leads to disappearance of the strange intermediate temperature 2SC/g2SC and changes the phase diagram of neutral dense quark matter significantly.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures. v2: references added, accepted for publication in PRD. V3: Calculation of the neutral LOFF state clarified, typos corrected

Effect of UA(1)U_A(1) Breaking on Chiral Phase Structure and Pion Superfluidity at Finite Isospin Chemical Potential

We investigate the isospin chemical potential effect in the frame of SU(2) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. When the isospin chemical potential is less than the vacuum pion mass, the phase structure with two chiral phase transition lines does not happen due to $U_A(1)$ breaking of QCD. When the isospin chemical potential is larger than the vacuum pion mass, the ground state of the system is a Bose-Einstein condensate of charged pions.Comment: Talk presented at Conference on Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory: Lattice and Beyond, Guangzhou, China, Dec.16--18, 2004; v2: error correcte

Classification of Symmetry-Protected Phases for Interacting Fermions in Two Dimensions

Recently, it has been shown that two-dimensional bosonic symmetry-protected topological(SPT) phases with on-site unitary symmetry $G$ can be completely classified by the group cohomology class $H^3(G, \mathrm{U}(1))$. Later, group super-cohomology class was proposed as a partial classification for SPT phases of interacting fermions. In this work, we revisit this problem based on the mathematical framework of $G$-extension of unitary braided tensor category(UBTC) theory. We first reproduce the partial classifications given by group super-cohomology, then we show that with an additional $H^1(G, \mathbb{Z}_2)$ structure, a complete classification of SPT phases for two-dimensional interacting fermion systems for a total symmetry group $G\times\mathbb{Z}_2^f$ can be achieved. We also discuss the classification of interacting fermionic SPT phases protected by time-reversal symmetry.Comment: references added; published versio

MMP for locally stable families and wall crossing for moduli of stable pairs

We construct reduction and wall-crossing morphisms between the moduli spaces of stable pairs as the coefficients vary, generalizing the earlier work of Ascher, Bejleri, Inchiostro and Patakfalvi which deals with the klt case. Along the proof, we show that one can run the MMP with scaling on normal locally stable families over a normal base, and that the existence of good minimal models is preserved when reducing coefficients away from zero.Comment: 35 pages, comments welcom