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Kaon superfluidity in the early Universe

  • 1. School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519088, China

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Previously, it was found that pion superfluidity could be realized in the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) epoch of the early Universe, when lepton flavor asymmetry |le+lμ| is large enough to generate a charge chemical potential |μQ| larger than vacuum pion mass. By following the same logic, kaon superfluidity might also be possible when |le+lμ| is so large that |μQ| becomes larger than vacuum kaon mass. Such a possibility is checked by adopting Ginzburg-Landau approximation within the three-flavor Polyakov–Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. Consider the case with full chemical balance, though kaon superfluidity could be stable compared to the chiral phases with only σ condensations, it would get killed by the more favored homogeneous pion superfluidity. If we introduce mismatch between s and d quarks, kaon superfluidity would require so large s quark density that such a state is impossible in the early Universe.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.110.034004;
arXiv
arXiv:2405.07208;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100003453;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
110
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
15 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

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Contract/Grant/Project number
2024A1515011225
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Funding organization
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province