Published September 15, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Twisted kink crystal in the chiral Gross-Neveu model

  • 1. Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 (United States)

Description

We present the detailed properties of a self-consistent crystalline chiral condensate in the massless chiral Gross-Neveu model. We show that a suitable ansatz for the Gorkov resolvent reduces the functional gap equation, for the inhomogeneous condensate, to a nonlinear Schroedinger equation, which is exactly soluble. The general crystalline solution includes as special cases all previously known real and complex condensate solutions to the gap equation. Furthermore, the associated Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation is also soluble with this inhomogeneous chiral condensate, and the exact spectral properties are derived. We find an all-orders expansion of the Ginzburg-Landau effective Lagrangian and show how the gap equation is solved order by order.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 065022-065022.21
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2008 The American Physical Society