Baryonic matter and beyond

Abstract

We summarize recent developments in identifying the ground state of dense baryonic matter and beyond. The topics include deconfinement from baryonic matter to quark matter, a diquark mixture, topological effect coupled with chirality and density, and inhomogeneous chiral condensates.

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, proceedings for the XXIV Quark Matter conference, May 19-24 2014, Darmstadt, Germany; Fig.4 replaced because of copyright reason