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AUTHOR
V. P. Pagura
Strongly interacting matter under external magnetic fields within nonlocal NJL-type models
We study the behavior of strongly interacting matter under an external magnetic field in the context of nonlocal Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) -like models. We find that at zero temperature the condensates display the well-known Magnetic Catalysis effect, showing a good quantitative agreement with lattice QCD (LQCD) results. Moreover, when extended to finite temperature we find that (contrary to what happens in the local NJL model) the Inverse Magnetic Catalysis (IMC) effect is naturally incorporated. We also analyze the magnetic susceptibility of the QCD vacuum in the limit of small magnetic field, considering two different model parametrizations, and compare our numerical results to those obta…
Third family of compact stars within a nonlocal chiral quark model equation of state
A class of hybrid compact star equations of state is investigated that joins by a Maxwell construction a low-density phase of hadronic matter, modeled by a relativistic mean-field approach with excluded nucleon volume, with a high-density phase of color superconducting two-flavor quark matter, described within a nonlocal covariant chiral quark model. It is found that the occurrence of a stable branch of hybrid compact stars requires a nonvanishing vector meson coupling in the quark model that exceeds a minimal value which depends on the presence of a diquark condensate. It is shown that these hybrid stars do not form a third family disconnected from the second family of ordinary neutron sta…
Strong magnetic fields in a nonlocal Polyakov chiral quark model
We study the behavior of strongly interacting matter under an external constant magnetic field in the context of nonlocal chiral quark models that incorporate a coupling to the Polyakov loop. We find that at zero temperature the behavior of the quark condensates shows the expected magnetic catalysis effect, our predictions being in good quantitative agreement with lattice QCD results. On the other hand when the analysis is extended to the case of finite temperature our results show that nonlocal models naturally lead to the Inverse Magnetic Catalysis effect for both the chiral restoration and deconfinement transition temperatures.
Inverse magnetic catalysis in nonlocal chiral quark models
We study the behavior of strongly interacting matter under an external magnetic field in the context of nonlocal Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) -like models. We find that at zero temperature the condensates display the well-known Magnetic Catalysis effect, showing a good quantitative agreement with lattice QCD results. Moreover, when extended to finite temperature we find that the Inverse Magnetic Catalysis effect is naturally incorporated.