Field theory for a deuteron quantum liquid

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2010)122zbMATH Open1272.81094arXiv1003.0865WikidataQ63354101 ScholiaQ63354101MaRDI QIDQ367670FDOQ367670

Authors: L. Berezhiani, Gregory Gabadadze, David Pirtskhalava 

Publication date: 16 September 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Based on general symmetry principles we study an effective Lagrangian for a neutral system of condensed spin-1 deuteron nuclei and electrons, at greater-than-atomic but less-than-nuclear densities. We expect such matter to be present in thin layers within certain low-mass brown dwarfs. It may also be produced in future shock-wave-compression experiments as an effective fuel for laser induced nuclear fusion. We find a background solution of the effective theory describing a net spin zero condensate of deuterons with their spins aligned and anti-aligned in a certain spontaneously emerged preferred direction. The spectrum of low energy collective excitations contains two spin waves with linear dispersions -- like in antiferromagnets -- as well as gapped longitudinal and transverse modes related to the Meissner effect -- like in superconductors. We show that counting of the Nambu-Goldstone modes of spontaneously broken internal and space-time symmetries obeys, in a nontrivial way, the rules of the Goldstone theorem for Lorentz non-invariant systems. We discuss thermodynamic properties of the condensate, and its potential manifestation in the low-mass brown dwarfs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0865

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zbMATH Keywords

global symmetriesspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Statistical mechanics of liquids (82D15) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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• Quantum Liquids
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