Vacuum free energy, quark condensate shifts and magnetization in three-flavor chiral perturbation theory to O(p^6) in a uniform magnetic field

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2023.116389MaRDI QIDQ6187098zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Prabal Adhikari, Inga Strümke

Publication date 5 February 2024

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05427

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX) Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

Abstract: We study three-flavor QCD in a uniform magnetic field using chiral perturbation theory ($chi$PT). We calculate the vacuum energy density, quark condensate shifts and the renormalized magnetization to $mathcalO(p^6)$ in the low-energy expansion. We find that the calculation of the vacuum density is greatly simplified by cancellations among two-loop diagrams involving charged mesons. Comparing our results with recent $2+1$-flavor lattice QCD data, we find that the light quark condensate shift at $mathcalO(p^6)$ is in better agreement than the shift at next-to-leading order. We also find that the renormalized magnetization, which is positive definite at next-to-leading order can be either positive or negative at $mathcalO(p^6)$ due to the uncertainties in the low-energy constants.

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