Cosmology of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model

We review the Nambu and Jona-Lasinio model (NJL), proposed long time ago, in the sixties, as a fermion interaction theory with chiral symmetry. The theory is not renormalizable and presents a symmetry breaking due to quantum effects which depends on the strength of the coupling constant. We may associate a phase transition with this symmetry breaking, leading from fermion states to a fermion condensate which can be described effectively by a scalar field. Our purpose in this paper is to exploit the interesting properties of NJL in a different context other than particle physics by studying its cosmological dynamics. We are interested in finding whether possibly the NJL model could be used to describe the still unknown dark energy and/or dark matter, from up to 95% of the energy content of the universe at present time.

Interplay Between Quark-Antiquark and Diquark Condensates in Vacuum in a Two-Flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model

By means of a relativistic effective potential, we analytically research competition between the quark- antiquark condensates （qq） and the diquark condensates （qq） in vacuum in ground state of a two-flavor Nambu Jona Lasinio （NJL） model and obtain the Gs-Hs phase diagram, where Gs and Hs are the respective four-fermion coupling constants in scalar quark-antiquark channel and scalar color anti-triplet diquark channel. The results show that, in the chiral limit, there is only the pure （qq） phase when Gs/Hs 〉 2/3, and as Gs/Hs decreases to 2/3 〉 Gs/Hs ≥ 0 one will first have a coexistence phase of the condensates （qq） and （qq） and then a pure （qq） phase. In non-zero bare quark mass case, the critical value of Gs/Hs at which the pure （qq） phase will transfer to the coexistence phase of the condensates （qq） and （qq） will be less than 2/3. Our theoretical results, combined with present phenomenological fact that there is no diquark condensates in the vacuum of QCD, will also impose a real restriction to any given two-flavor NJL model which is intended to simulate QCD, i.e. in such model the resulting sma/lest ratio Gs/Hs after the Fierz transformations in the Hartree approximation must be larger than 2/3. A few phenomenological QCD-like NJL models are checked and analyzed.

Electrical Neutrality and Symmetry Restoring Phase Transitions at High Density in a Two-Flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model

A general research on chiral symmetry restoring phase transitions at zero temperature and finite chemical potentials under electrical neutrality condition has been conducted in a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model to describe twoflavor normal quark matter. Depending on whether mo/A, the ratio of dynamical quark mass in vacuum and the 3D momentum cutoff in the loop integrals, is less or greater than 0.413, the phase transition will be of the second or first order. A complete phase diagram of u quark chemical potential versus mo is given. With the electrical neutrality constraint, the region where the second order phase transition happens will be wider than the one without electrical neutrality limitation. The results also show that, for the value ofmo/A from QCD phenomenology, the phase transition must be of the first order.

Nuclear matter and neutron star properties with the extendedNambu-Jona-Lasinio model

An extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio(eNJL) model with nucleons as the degrees of freedom is used to investigate properties of nuclear matter and neutron stars(NSs),including the binding energy and symmetry energy of the nuclear matter, the core-crust transition density, and mass-radius relation of NSs. The fourth-order symmetry energy at saturation density is also investigated. When the bulk properties of nuclear matter at saturation density are used to determine the model parameters, the double solutions of parameters are obtained for a given nuclear incompressibility. It is shown that the isovector-vector interaction has a significant influence on the nuclear matter and NS properties, and the sign of isovector-vector coupling constant is critical in the determination of the trend of the symmetry energy and equation of state. The effects of the other model parameters and symmetry energy slope at saturation density are discussed.

Crust-core properties of neutron stars in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model

We adopt the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio(NJL) model to study the crust-core transition properties in neutron stars(NSs). For a given momentum cutoff and symmetry energy of saturation density in the NJL model, decreasing the slope of the symmetry energy gives rise to an increase in the crust-core transition density and transition pressure.Given the slope of the symmetry energy at saturation density, the transition density and corresponding transition pressure increase with increasing symmetry energy. The increasing trend between the fraction of the crustal moment of inertia and the slope of symmetry energy at saturation density indicates that a relatively large momentum cutoff of the NJL model is preferred. For a momentum cutoff of 500 Me V, the fraction of the crustal moment of inertia clearly increases with the slope of symmetry energy at saturation density. Thus, at the required fraction(7%) of the crustal moment of inertia, the NJL model with momentum cutoff of 500 Me V and a large slope of the symmetry energy of saturation density can give the upper limit of the mass of the Vela pulsar to be above 1.40 M.

Chiral phase transition of quark matter in the background of parallel electric and magnetic fields

We report on our results about spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking for quark matter in the background of static and homogeneous parallel electric field,E,and magnetic field,B.A Nambu–Jona–Lasinio model is used to compute the dependence of the chiral condensate at finite temperature,E and B.We study the effect of this background on inverse catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking for E and B of the same order of magnitude.We also consider the effect of equilibration of chiral density,n_5,produced by axial anomaly on the critical temperature.The equilibration of n_5 allows for the introduction of the chiral chemical potential,u_5,which is computed selfconsistently as a function of temperature and field strength.We find that even if the chiral medium is produced by the fields the thermodynamics,with particular reference to the inverse catalysis induced by the external fields,it is not very affected by n_5 at least if the average u_5,at equilibrium is not too large.

An SU(3) Electroweak Unified Model Using Generalized Yang-Mills Theory

Generalized Yang-Mills theory has a covariant derivative which contains both vector and scalar gauge bosons. Based on this theory, we construct an SU(3) unified model of electromagnetic and weak interactions to simplify the Weinberg-Salam model. By using the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio mechanism, the symmetry breaking can be realized dynamically. The masses of W±, Z0 are obtained and interactions between various particles are the same as that of the Weinberg-Salam model. At the same time, sin2 θw =1/4 can be given.

基于pNJL模型的三维QCD相图

基于三味Polyakov-looped Nambu-Jona-Lasinio(pNJL)模型,通过研究手征凝聚、pion凝聚和Polyakov圈之间的相互作用,研究了温度、重子化学势和同位旋化学势依赖的三维QCD相图结构。虽然pNJL模型得到的正常夸克物质相、pion超流相和Sarma相的结构以及相边界与NJL模型定性上相似,但Polyakov圈的引入大大扩展了pion超流相和Sarma相的存在区域,并导致临界点出现在较高的温度。由于有效地引入了胶子动力学的贡献,与NJL模型相比,该研究有望对三维QCD相图给出更可靠的预测。

维数正规化和NJL模型π介子性质

利用定义于Ｇｒａｓｓｍａｎｎ扩展空间的Ｄｉｒａｃ代数算符表象的维数正规化方案，研究Ｎａｍｂｕ－Ｊｏｎａ－Ｌａｓｉｎｉｏ（ＮＪＬ）模型中的π介子模式的性质．说明维数正规化方法可以给出ＮＪＬ模型中强子模式的解析形式和相应的符合实验的数值结果．

Magnetic Effect Versus Thermal Effect on Quark Matter with a Running Coupling at Finite Densities

We investigate the quark matter in a strong magnetic field in the framework of SU(2) NJL model with a magnetic-field-dependent coupling. The spin polarization, the entropy per baryon, and the energy are studied by analyzing the competition of the magnetic effect and the thermal effect. The stronger magnetic field can enhance the spin polarization, arrange quarks in a uniform spin orientation, and change the energy per baryon drastically. However,it can hardly affect the entropy per baryon, which is dominated by the temperature. As the temperature increases, more quarks will be excited from the lowest Landau level up to higher Landau levels.