scholarly journals Indications for a critical point in the phase diagram for hot and dense nuclear matter

2016 ◽  
Vol 956 ◽  
pp. 348-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy A. Lacey
Keyword(s):  
Phase Diagram ◽  
Nuclear Matter ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Dense Nuclear Matter

scholarly journals Topology change, emergent symmetries and compact star matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong-Liang Ma ◽  
Mannque Rho
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Matter ◽  
Compact Star ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Compact Stars ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Topology Change ◽  
Dense Nuclear Matter ◽  
Skyrmion Matter ◽  
Energy Constants

AbstractTopology effects have being extensively studied and confirmed in strongly correlated condensed matter physics. In the limit of large number of colors, baryons can be regarded as topological objects—skyrmions—and the baryonic matter can be regarded as a skyrmion matter. We review in this paper the generalized effective field theory for dense compact-star matter constructed with the robust inputs obtained from the skyrmion approach to dense nuclear matter, relying on possible “emergent” scale and local flavor symmetries at high density. All nuclear matter properties from the saturation density n0 up to several times n0 can be fairly well described. A uniquely novel—and unorthdox—feature of this theory is the precocious appearance of the pseudo-conformal sound velocity $v^{2}_{s}/c^{2} \approx 1/3$ v s 2 / c 2 ≈ 1 / 3 , with the non-vanishing trace of the energy momentum tensor of the system. The topology change encoded in the density scaling of low energy constants is interpreted as the quark-hadron continuity in the sense of Cheshire Cat Principle (CCP) at density $\gtrsim 2n_{0}$ ≳ 2 n 0 in accessing massive compact stars. We confront the approach with the data from GW170817 and GW190425.

scholarly journals Constraining the equation of state of dense nuclear matter using thermal emission of neutron stars

2020 ◽  
Vol 1667 ◽  
pp. 012001
Author(s):  
Nicolas Baillot d’Étivaux ◽  
Jérôme Margueron ◽  
Sebastien Guillot ◽  
Natalie Webb ◽  
Màrcio Catelan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Equation Of State ◽  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Nuclear Matter ◽  
Thermal Emission ◽  
Dense Nuclear Matter

scholarly journals Entanglement and Disordered-Enhanced Topological Phase in the Kitaev Chain

Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liron Levy ◽  
Moshe Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Phase Diagram ◽  
Information Theory ◽  
Quantum Information ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Quantum Information Theory ◽  
Topological Phase ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Zero Modes ◽  
Many Body Systems

In recent years, tools from quantum information theory have become indispensable in characterizing many-body systems. In this work, we employ measures of entanglement to study the interplay between disorder and the topological phase in 1D systems of the Kitaev type, which can host Majorana end modes at their edges. We find that the entanglement entropy may actually increase as a result of disorder, and identify the origin of this behavior in the appearance of an infinite-disorder critical point. We also employ the entanglement spectrum to accurately determine the phase diagram of the system, and find that disorder may enhance the topological phase, and lead to the appearance of Majorana zero modes in systems whose clean version is trivial.

scholarly journals Nuclear equation of state and neutron star cooling

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (04) ◽  
pp. 1750015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeunhwan Lim ◽  
Chang Ho Hyun ◽  
Chang-Hwan Lee
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Star ◽  
Equation Of State ◽  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Nuclear Matter ◽  
Thermal Evolution ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Nuclear Equation Of State ◽  
The Core ◽  
Dense Nuclear Matter ◽  
Nuclear Models

In this paper, we investigate the cooling of neutron stars with relativistic and nonrelativistic models of dense nuclear matter. We focus on the effects of uncertainties originated from the nuclear models, the composition of elements in the envelope region, and the formation of superfluidity in the core and the crust of neutron stars. Discovery of [Formula: see text] neutron stars PSR J1614−2230 and PSR J0343[Formula: see text]0432 has triggered the revival of stiff nuclear equation of state at high densities. In the meantime, observation of a neutron star in Cassiopeia A for more than 10 years has provided us with very accurate data for the thermal evolution of neutron stars. Both mass and temperature of neutron stars depend critically on the equation of state of nuclear matter, so we first search for nuclear models that satisfy the constraints from mass and temperature simultaneously within a reasonable range. With selected models, we explore the effects of element composition in the envelope region, and the existence of superfluidity in the core and the crust of neutron stars. Due to uncertainty in the composition of particles in the envelope region, we obtain a range of cooling curves that can cover substantial region of observation data.

scholarly journals Constructing the phase diagram of finite neutral nuclear matter

2003 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Elliott ◽  
L. G. Moretto ◽  
L. Phair ◽  
G. J. Wozniak ◽  
S. Albergo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Diagram ◽  
Nuclear Matter
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