The effect of the chiral chemical potential on the chiral phase transition in the NJL model with different regularization schemes

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the chiral chemical potential affects the chiral phase transition in the NJL model, revealing that regularization schemes significantly influence the observed behavior of the critical temperature.

Contribution

It clarifies the impact of different regularization schemes on the chiral phase transition and demonstrates that the increase in critical temperature with  in some schemes is an artifact.

Findings

In the hard-cutoff scheme, the critical temperature increases with , but this is an artifact.

When thermal fluctuations are fully included, the critical temperature decreases with .

The study reconciles conflicting results by analyzing the role of regularization schemes.

Abstract

We study the chiral phase transition in the presence of the chiral chemical potential $\mu_5$ using the two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. In particular, we analyze the reason why one can obtain two opposite behaviors of the chiral critical temperature as a function of $\mu_5$ in the framework of different regularization schemes. We compare the modifications of the chiral condensate and the critical temperature due to $\mu_5$ in different regularization schemes, analytically and numerically. Finally, we find that, for the conventional hard-cutoff regularization scheme, the increasing dependence of the critical temperature on the chiral chemical potential is an artifact, which is caused by the fact that it does not include complete contribution from the thermal fluctuations. When the thermal contribution is fully taken into account, the chiral critical temperature should decrease with $\mu_5$.