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Based on the chiral perturbation theory at the leading order, we show a signal of the presence of a new phase in rapidly rotating QCD matter with two flavors, that is a domain-wall Skyrmion phase. Based on the chiral Lagrangian with a Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) term responsible for the chiral anomaly and chiral vortical effect, it was shown that the ground state is a chiral soliton lattice (CSL) consisting of a stack of η-solitons in a high density region under rapid rotation. In a large parameter region, a single η-soliton decays into a pair of non-Abelian solitons, each of which carries SU(2)V/U(1) ≃ ℂP1 ≃ S2 moduli as a consequence of the spontaneously broken vector symmetry SU(2)V. In such a non-Abelian CSL, we construct the effective world-volume theory of a single non-Abelian soliton to obtain a d = 2 + 1 dimensional ℂP1 model with a topological term originated from the WZW term. We show that when the chemical potential is larger than a critical value, a topological lump supported by the second homotopy group π2(S2) ≃ ℤ has negative energy and is spontaneously created, implying the domain-wall Skyrmion phase. This lump corresponds in the bulk to a Skyrmion supported by the third homotopy group π3[SU(2)] ≃ ℤ carrying a baryon number. This composite state is called a domain-wall Skyrmion, and is stable even in the absence of the Skyrme term. An analytic formula for the effective nucleon mass in this medium can be written only in terms of the meson’s constants as \( 4\sqrt{2}\pi {f}_{\pi }{f}_{\eta }/{m}_{\pi}\sim 1.21 \) GeV with the decay constants fπ and fη of the pions and η meson, respectively, and the pion mass mπ. This is reasonably heavier than the nucleon mass in the QCD vacuum.
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This work is supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI [Grants No. JP19K03839 (ME) No. JP21H01084 (KN), and No. JP22H01221 (ME and MN)] and the WPI program “Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2)” at Hiroshima University.
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Eto, M., Nishimura, K. & Nitta, M. Domain-wall Skyrmion phase in a rapidly rotating QCD matter. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 19 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2024)019
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