Interweaving Chiral Spirals at finite quark density

TL;DR

This paper explores the construction of interweaving chiral spirals in a (2+1) dimensional quark system, suggesting they delay phase transitions by suppressing quark fluctuations, which is relevant for understanding quark matter at intermediate densities.

Contribution

It introduces a method to construct interweaving chiral spirals and discusses their impact on delaying phase transitions in quark matter.

Findings

ICS construction methodology demonstrated in (2+1)D system

ICS potentially delays chiral restoration and deconfinement

Implications for quark matter at intermediate densities

Abstract

The interweaving chiral spirals (ICS), that is defined as superposition of differently oriented chiral spirals, is important for qualitative understandings of the intermediate quark density region as well as quantitative estimates of the Quarkyonic region. We discuss how to construct the ICS, taking the (2+1) dimensional Fermi system as an example. We postulate that the presence of the ICS would delay the occurrence of the chiral restoration as well as deconfinement phase transition, by tempering the growth of quark fluctuations.