Dynamical stabilization of runaway potentials at finite density

Buchel, Alex; Jia, Junji; Miransky, V. A.

Dynamical stabilization of runaway potentials at finite density

Authors

Buchel, Alex

Jia, Junji

Miransky, V. A.

Description

We study four dimensional non-abelian gauge theories with classical moduli. Introducing a chemical potential for a flavor charge causes moduli to become unstable and start condensing. We show that the moduli condensation in the presence of a chemical potential generates nonabelian field strength condensates. These condensates are homogeneous but non-isotropic. The end point of the condensation process is a stable homogeneous, but non-isotropic, vacuum in which both gauge and flavor symmetries and the rotational invariance are spontaneously broken. Possible applications of this phenomenon for the gauge theory/string theory correspondence and in cosmology are briefly discussed.
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