Order Parameters and Color-Flavor Center Symmetry in QCD

Cherman, Aleksey; Sen, Srimoyee; Ünsal, Mithat; Wagman, Michael L.; Yaffe, Laurence G.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.222001

Title: Order Parameters and Color-Flavor Center Symmetry in QCD

Journal Article · 29 November 2017 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.222001 · OSTI ID:1596503

Cherman, Aleksey ^[1]; Sen, Srimoyee ^[2]; Ünsal, Mithat ^[3]; Wagman, Michael L. ^[4];

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Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Inst. for Nuclear Theory
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States). Dept. of Physics
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Inst. for Nuclear Theory and Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Physics

Common lore implies 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 $d \equiv g c d (n_{f}, N) > 1$ . These theories have a $Z_{d}$ color-flavor center symmetry arising from intertwined color center transformations and cyclic flavor permutations. Furthermore, 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.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011637; FG02-00ER41132; FG02-04ER41338; SC0013036

OSTI ID:: 1596503

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1410585

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 22; ISSN 0031-9007

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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