Dissecting the moat regime at low energies II: Correlations

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We study the effects of the moat regime on meson and quark correlation functions and the quark-antiquark potential in low-energy QCD, building on the two-flavor quark meson model in a random-phase approximation. We investigate the relation between the moat regime and Friedel oscillations in the quark-antiquark potential at large density and zero temperature. As it turns out, oscillations from the moat regime are a distinct phenomenon, arising from poles on unphysical Riemann sheets in this region. Furthermore, we find that in addition to pions and the sigma meson, also other mesons, including vector mesons and the eta, are sensitive to the moat regime. This leads in particular to an enhancement of the meson spectral function in the spacelike region. The quarks, on the other hand, appear to be essentially insensitive. This can have far-reaching consequences for the phase diagram, as for example the chiral phase boundary, including the location of the critical endpoint, can be affected in the moat regime even in absence of inhomogeneous instabilities.

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@misc{rennecke2026dissecting,
  title = {{Dissecting the moat regime at low energies II: Correlations}},
  author = {Fabian Rennecke and Shi Yin},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.32563},
  eprint = {2609.32563},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32563},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Dissecting the moat regime at low energies II: Correlations
AU  - Fabian Rennecke
AU  - Shi Yin
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/26
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.32563
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32563
AB  - We study the effects of the moat regime on meson and quark correlation functions and the quark-antiquark potential in low-energy QCD, building on the two-flavor quark meson model in a random-phase approximation. We investigate the relation between the moat regime and Friedel oscillations in the quark-antiquark potential at large density and zero temperature. As it turns out, oscillations from the moat regime are a distinct phenomenon, arising from poles on unphysical Riemann sheets in this region. Furthermore, we find that in addition to pions and the sigma meson, also other mesons, including vector mesons and the eta, are sensitive to the moat regime. This leads in particular to an enhancement of the meson spectral function in the spacelike region. The quarks, on the other hand, appear to be essentially insensitive. This can have far-reaching consequences for the phase diagram, as for example the chiral phase boundary, including the location of the critical endpoint, can be affected in the moat regime even in absence of inhomogeneous instabilities.
ER  -

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