Inhomogeneous chiral phases in two-flavor quark matter

Abstract

We present a systematic study of the phase structure of QCD in a generalized Ginzburg-Landau framework. We find, going up in density, a strongly interacting matter might go through the "pion crystal", an exotic inhomogeneous chiral phase before reaching the full restoration of symmetry.

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures, talk given in Quarks and Compact Stars 2014 (QCS2014), Oct. 20-22, 2014, KIAA at Peking University, Beijing, China