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We consider three-flavor chiral perturbation theory (χPT) at zero temperature and nonzero isospin (μI) and strange (μS) chemical potentials. The effective potential is calculated to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the π±-condensed phase, the K±-condensed phase, and the \( {K}^0/{\overline{K}}^0 \)-condensed phase. It is shown that the transitions from the vacuum phase to these phases are second order and take place when, \( \left|{\mu}_I\right|={m}_{\pi },\left|\frac{1}{2}{\mu}_I+{\mu}_S\right|={m}_K \), and \( \left|-\frac{1}{2}{\mu}_I+{\mu}_S\right|={m}_K \), respectively at tree level and remains unchanged at NLO. The transition between the two condensed phases is first order. The effective potential in the pion-condensed phase is independent of μS and in the kaon-condensed phases, it only depends on the combinations \( \pm \frac{1}{2}{\mu}_I+{\mu}_S \) and not separately on μI and μS. We calculate the pressure, isospin density and the equation of state in the pion-condensed phase and compare our results with recent (2 + 1)-flavor lattice QCD data. We find that the three-flavor χPT results are in good agreement with lattice QCD for μI < 200 MeV, however for larger values χPT produces values for observables that are consistently above lattice results. For μI > 200 MeV, the two-flavor results are in better agreement with lattice data. Finally, we consider the observables in the limit of very heavy s-quark, where they reduce to their two-flavor counterparts with renormalized couplings. The disagreement between the predictions of two and three flavor χPT can largely be explained by the differences in the experimental values of the low-energy constants.
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Adhikari, P., Andersen, J.O. Pion and kaon condensation at zero temperature in three-flavor χPT at nonzero isospin and strange chemical potentials at next-to-leading order. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 170 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2020)170
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