Competition and coexistence of baryonic condensates in AdS hardwall model
Abstract
Cold dense QCD admits several order parameters for baryon-number breaking, among them diquark and dibaryon condensates. We ask whether they exclude one another or coexist, using a five-dimensional AdS hardwall model with full backreaction in which two charged scalars, dual to operators of charges qi and dimensions Δi, couple to a common U(1)B gauge field. With the diquark-like operator fixed at q1=2, Δ1=3, both operators condense only within a narrow window of Δ2, which widens with q2 and closes when the operators coincide. Outside the window, only a single condensate forms. The structure persists in both confined and deconfined phases. In the μB-T plane, confined matter with both condensates is preferred at low temperature, below a narrow band of deconfined matter with one condensate.
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BibTeX
@misc{singh2026competition,
title = {{Competition and coexistence of baryonic condensates in AdS hardwall model}},
author = {Akash Singh},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.40244},
eprint = {2610.40244},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40244},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Competition and coexistence of baryonic condensates in AdS hardwall model
AU - Akash Singh
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.40244
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40244
AB - Cold dense QCD admits several order parameters for baryon-number breaking, among them diquark and dibaryon condensates. We ask whether they exclude one another or coexist, using a five-dimensional AdS hardwall model with full backreaction in which two charged scalars, dual to operators of charges q_i and dimensions Δ_i, couple to a common U(1)_B gauge field. With the diquark-like operator fixed at q_1=2, Δ_1=3, both operators condense only within a narrow window of Δ_2, which widens with q_2 and closes when the operators coincide. Outside the window, only a single condensate forms. The structure persists in both confined and deconfined phases. In the μ_B-T plane, confined matter with both condensates is preferred at low temperature, below a narrow band of deconfined matter with one condensate.
ER -