PHYSICAL REVIEW C 84, 024321 (2011)
Phase structure in a chiral model of nuclear matter
Tran Huu Phat,1,2,* Nguyen Tuan Anh,3 and Dinh Thanh Tam4,1
1
Vietnam Atomic Energy Commission, 59 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hanoi, Vietnam
2
Dong Do University, 8 Nguyen Cong Hoan, Hanoi, Vietnam
3
Electric Power University, 235 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Vietnam
4
University of Taybac, Sonla, Vietnam
(Received 11 December 2010; revised manuscript received 30 May 2011; published 25 August 2011)
The phase structure of symmetric nuclear matter in the extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (ENJL) model is studied
by means of the effective potential in the one-loop approximation. It is found that chiral symmetry gets restored
at high nuclear density and a typical first-order phase transition of the liquid-gas transition occurs at zero
temperature, T = 0, which weakens as T grows and eventually ends up with a second-order critical point at
T = 20 MeV. This phase transition scenario is confirmed by investigating the evolution of the effective potential
versus the effective nucleon mass and the equation of state.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.84.024321
PACS number(s): 11.30.Rd, 05.70.Fh, 21.65.−f
I. INTRODUCTION
Heavy-ion collisions at high energies presently are a powerful tool for generating hot and dense strongly interacting matter, and therefore they provide the opportunity to explore many
interesting properties of matter under extreme conditions. In
this connection, phase transitions in nuclear matter turn out to
be a hot topic, attracting intense experimental and theoretical
investigations. As was known, experiments reveal that with
increasing excitation energy the behavior of excited nuclei can
be described in terms of thermodynamics, and, consequently,
in this regime statistical concepts turn out to be relevant.
Numerous experimental analyses indicate that a dramatic
change occurs in the reaction mechanism for excited energy
per nucleon in the interval E/A ∼ 2–5 MeV, consistently
corresponding to a first- or second-order phase transition
of nuclear matter [1–9]. In addition, the critical exponents
extracted from experimental data [10,11] are remarkably close
to those of the liquid-gas phase transition and significantly
different from the values derived from the mean-field treatment
of the system concerned.
In fact, the phase transition of nuclear matter has been
often considered in numerous theoretical papers [12–22].
They are based on phenomenological models which are
formulated directly in terms of nucleon degrees of freedom.
Nonrelativistic nuclear models dealing with various types of
nucleon-nucleon potentials are available only at low density,
but they fail to reflect the physical characteristics of dense
matter. The relativistic nuclear theory of Walecka [23] has
successfully reproduced many physical properties of medium
and heavy nuclei. Other relativistic nuclear models have been
developed and have attained important results. However, all
the preceding theories have a serious drawback: namely, they
do not respect chiral symmetry, which is commonly accepted
as one of the basic symmetries of the strong interaction. The
chiral phase transition in a dense matter state plays a crucial
role in studying physical properties of excited nuclei as well
as the structure of compact stars and the evolution of the early
universe.
Nowadays, there has been considerable progress in exploring the chiral phase transition in quark matter within the
framework of the lattice QCD simulation [24] and effective
models of QCD [25,26]. The chiral phase transition has
been one of the most important experimental realizations
in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this regard, we are
interested to those chiral models of nuclear matter which
are able to explain spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking in
vacuum and its restoration at high densities. As was discussed
in Ref. [21] the most suitable model for our goal might be
the extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (ENJL) model. Therefore
in this paper we start from the Lagrangian
L = LNJL + μψ̄γ0 ψ,
LNJL = ψ̄(i ∂ˆ − m0 )ψ
Gv
Gs
+
[(ψ̄ψ)2 + (ψ̄iγ5 τψ)2 ] −
(ψ̄γμ ψ)2
2
2
Gsv
(1)
+
[(ψ̄ψ)2 + (ψ̄iγ5 τψ)2 ](ψ̄γμ ψ)2 ,
2
where μ = diag(μp , μn ), μp,n = μB ± μI /2; m0 is the “bare”
mass of the nucleon, τ is the isospin Pauli matrices, and Gs ,
Gv , and Gsv are coupling constants.
The main aim of this paper is to test the validity of the ENJL
model (1): whether or not it reproduces the well-established
results for symmetric nuclear matter, such as the value of the
in-medium nucleon mass, the value of incompressibility, and
the liquid-gas phase transition at subsaturation density, ρ <
ρ0 ≈ 0.17 fm−3 . Therefore, we will deal only with symmetric
nuclear matter (μI = 0) in what follows.
In the mean-field approximation we replace
(ψ̄Ŵi ψ)2 = 2ψ̄Ŵi ψψ̄Ŵi ψ − ψ̄Ŵi ψ2 ,
(ψ̄Ŵi ψ ψ̄Ŵj ψ)2 = ψ̄Ŵi ψ2 (2ψ̄Ŵj ψψ̄Ŵj ψ)
+ (2ψ̄Ŵi ψψ̄Ŵi ψ)ψ̄Ŵj ψ2
*
− 3ψ̄Ŵi ψ2 ψ̄Ŵj ψ2
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with Ŵ = {1, iγ5 τ, γμ , γ5 γμ }, with averaging at finite density
and temperature denoted by the angular brackets.
Equations (2) combine with the bosonization
σ = ψ̄ψ,
π = ψ̄iγ5 τψ,
Based on (9) and (10) the effective potential is derived
immediately:
= ln Z = U (ρB , ρs ) + iTr ln S −1
d 3k
[Ek + T ln(n− n+ )],
= U (ρB , u) + 2Nf
(2π )3
ωμ = ψ̄γμ ψ,
yielding
L = ψ̄(i ∂ˆ − m0 + γ0 μ)ψ + (Gs + Gsv ω2 )ψ̄(σ + iγ5 τπ )ψ
2
2
− [Gv − Gsv (σ + π )]ψ̄ ω̂ψ
Gs 2
Gv 2
Gsv 2
−
(σ + π 2 ) +
ω −3
(σ + π 2 )ω2 .
2
2
2
where n∓ = [eE∓ /T + 1]−1 and Nf = 2 for nuclear matter and
Nf = 1 for neutron matter.
The pressure P is defined as
(3)
P = −taken at minimum .
The structure of this paper is as follows. In Sec. II we
present the equations of state of chiral nuclear matter for later
use. Section III is devoted to determining static properties
of symmetric nuclear matter at zero temperature. In Sec. IV
the phase transition of chiral nuclear matter is studied. The
conclusion and outlook are given in Sec. V.
The energy density is obtained by the Legendre transform
of P :
E = + T ς + μB ρB
= U (ρB , u) + 2Nf
+ 2Nf
II. EQUATIONS OF STATE OF CHIRAL
NUCLEAR MATTER
At μI = 0, the σ , π , and ω fields develop the ground-state
expectation values
σ = u,
π i = 0,
ωμ = ρB δ0μ
(4)
in cold nuclear matter. Inserting (4) into (3) we arrive at
LMFT = ψ̄(i ∂ˆ − M ∗ + γ0 μ∗ )ψ − U (ρB , u),
with
μ∗ = μB − v = μB − (Gv − Gsv u2 )ρB ,
U (ρB , u) = 12 Gs u2 − Gv ρB2 + 3Gsv u2 ρB2 ,
G̃s = Gs + Gsv ρB2 = Gs [1 + α(ρB /ρ0 )2 ],
(7)
(8)
or
u = ρs = 2Nf
S −1 (k) = k̂ − M ∗ + γ0 μ∗ ,
giving
k 2 + M ∗2 .
(13)
∂
= 0,
∂u
(10)
d 3k M ∗
(n− + n+ − 1),
(2π )3 Ek
which is usually called the gap equation.
In terms of the baryon density
∂P
d 3k
ρB =
= 2Nf
(n− − n+ ),
∂μB
(2π )3
(14a)
(14b)
the expression for P reads
(m0 − M ∗ )2
Gv 2
ρ + (μB − μ∗ )ρB
−
2 B
2G̃s
d 3k
[Ek + T ln(n− n+ )],
−2Nf
(2π )3
P =−
with
Ek =
(12)
(6)
Integrating out the nucleon degrees of freedom it is found that
VU
det S −1 ,
Z = exp −
(9)
T
E∓ = Ek ∓ μ∗ ,
− n+ )
with the entropy density defined by
d 3k
[n− ln n− + (1 − n− ) ln(1 − n− )
ς = −2Nf
(2π )3
+n+ ln n+ + (1 − n+ ) ln(1 − n+ )].
V
in which
v (n−
The ground state of nuclear matter is determined by the
minimum condition
α = ρ02 Gsv /Gs .
det S −1 (k) = (k0 − E− )(k0 + E+ ),
d 3k
(2π )3
(5)
The solution M ∗ of Eq. (6) is the nucleon effective mass,
which reduces to the nucleon mass in vacuum.
Starting from (5) we establish the partition function
β
Z = D ψ̄DψDσ D πDω
d 3 x LMFT .
dτ
μ exp
0
d 3k
Ek (n− + n+ − 1),
(2π )3
where
M ∗ = m0 − G̃s u,
(11)
(15)
and the energy density takes the form
(m0 − M ∗ )2 Gv 2
d 3k
E=
Ek (n− +n+ −1).
+ ρB +2Nf
2
(2π )3
2G̃s
(16)
Equations (15) and (16) are the equations of state which govern
all the phase transition processes of nuclear matter.
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III. STATIC PROPERTIES OF NUCLEAR MATTER
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At zero temperature Eqs. (14a), (14b), (15), and (16) are
simplified to
Nf 2
M∗
u=− 2
,
(17)
k dk 2
π kF
(k + M ∗2 )1/2
bin
MeV
5
kF3
,
(18)
3π 2
(m0 − M ∗ )2
Gv 2 Nf 2
ρB − 2
k dk (k 2 + M ∗2 )1/2 .
E=
+
2
π kF
2G̃s
ρB = Nf
(i) It is evident that in vacuum, ρB = 0, kF = 0, we must
have M ∗ = MN with MN = 939 MeV, the nucleon mass
in vacuum. Consequently, Eq. (6) provides the first
constraint
MN = m0 − G̃s uvacuum ,
(20)
with uvacuum satisfying the gap equation (17) taken at
ρB = 0 and kF = 0.
(ii) Another constraint is read out from applying the soft
pion phenomenology and the partial conservation of
the axial current (PCAC) equation for the axial-vector
current of nucleons in vacuum,
m2π fπ2 = m0 |uvacuum |,
(21)
where mπ = 138 MeV is the pion mass and fπ =
93 MeV is the pion decay constant in vacuum.
(iii) The saturation mechanism requires that at normal
density ρB = ρ0 ≃ 0.17 fm−3 the binding energy
Ebin = −MN + E/ρB
(22)
attains its minimum value
(Ebin )ρ0 ≃ −15.8 MeV,
where E is given by Eq. (19).
With the aid of MATHEMATICA [27] the numerical computation is achieved. It is found that m0 = 41.264 MeV, Gs =
8.507 fm2 , Gv /Gs = 0.933, α = 0.032, and = 400 MeV.
Figure 1 shows the graphs of binding energy against baryon
density. Next, these values are used to calculate the in-medium
mass of the nucleon,
M ∗ /MN ≃ 0.684,
and the incompressibility
∂ 2 Ebin
K0 = 9ρ0
∂ρB2
5
10
15
0.0
(19)
Now we follow the method developed in Ref. [21] to
determine the five parameters m0 , Gs , Gv , α, and for
symmetric nuclear matter based on two constraints and the
saturation condition:
0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
ρB ρ0
FIG. 1. (Color online) Nuclear binding energy as a function of
baryon density.
Thus we have successfully obtained the values for two key
nuclear quantities, which are in good agreement with those
widely expected in the literature [30].
Table I lists all the calculated values for parameters and
physical quantities concerned.
Collecting the above calculated values for the model
parameters we are ready to carry out the numerical study of
phase transition.
IV. PHASE STRUCTURE OF SYMMETRIC
NUCLEAR MATTER
In this section we proceed to the study of chiral restoration
at high nuclear density and the well-known gas-liquid phase
transition at subsaturation of nuclear matter, because they
belong to the fundamental issues of modern nuclear physics. To
this end, we first solve numerically the gap equation for a chiral
condensate (14a) and obtain in Fig. 2 the evolution of a chiral
condensate versus μB at various values of T . It is clear that
chiral symmetry gets restored at large μB and, moreover, for
T > 20 MeV the order parameter u is a single-valued function
of the baryon chemical potential μB and smoothly tends to
zero. This kind of behavior is usually defined as a crossover
transition. Meanwhile, for lower T , 0 < T < 20 MeV, the
order parameter turns out to be a multi-valued function of
μB , where, due to Asakawa and Yazaki [25], a first-order
chiral phase transition emerges. Then applying the method
proposed in [25], which essentially identifies the multi-value
region of a chiral condensate with the region of a first-order
phase transition, we obtain the corresponding phase diagram
for the chiral condensate in the (T , μB ) plane shown in Fig. 3.
Here the solid line denotes a first-order phase transition,
which ends up with a second-order critical end point, CEP
(T = 20 MeV, μB = 907 MeV). This is exactly the liquid-gas
≃ 285.91 MeV.
TABLE I. Values of parameters and physical quantities.
ρ0
An analysis [28] shows that this value of incompressibility
may be more compatible with the data than the one previously
reported [29], K = 180–240 MeV.
(MeV) Gs (fm2 ) Gv /Gs
400
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0.933
m0
α
41.264 0.032
M ∗ /MN
K0
0.684
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1.00
1.0
1
0.95
T
T
T
T
T
0
5 MeV
10 MeV
15 MeV
20 MeV
0.8
0.9
0.90
6
0.6
1.0
0.85
3
0.8
0.80
860 880 900 920 940
MeV fm
u u0
1.5
1
3 2
5 4
7
0.4
0.5
0.2
0.0
0.0
0
500
1000
1500
2000
0.6
µ B MeV
0.7
1.0
M MN
FIG. 2. (Color online) The evolution of a chiral condensate u vs
μB at various values of T . From the left the graphs correspond to
T = 0, 100, 175 MeV, respectively. The inset shows u(T , μB ) at the
low values of T , T = 0 (line 1), 5 MeV (line 2), 10 MeV (line 3),
15 MeV (line 4), and 20 MeV (line 5).
phase transition at subsaturation of symmetric nuclear matter.
Figure 3 is in good agreement with the conjectured QCD phase
diagram [31]. Low-energy heavy-ion collisions experiments
indicate that μCEP ∼ 923 MeV, TCEP = 15–20 MeV [32].
The above result can be tested by observing the evolution
of the effective potential versus M ∗ for several values of T and
μB belonging to the multi-valued region of a chiral condensate,
0 < T < 20 MeV and 907 < μB < 923 MeV. This is plotted
in Fig. 4. For T < 20 MeV the first-order phase transition
is represented by a graph with two minima corresponding
to phases of restored and broken symmetry separated by a
barrier. As T increases further these minima smear out and at
T = 20 MeV the barrier between them disappears, signaling
the onset of a second-order phase transition. This phenomenon
is displayed clearly by means of the equation of state (EoS).
Indeed, starting from the relation
P = −taken at minimum .
250
FIG. 4. (Color online) The evolution of effective potential vs M ∗
at several values of T and μB .
let us plot in Fig. 5 a set of isotherms. These bear the
typical structure of the van der Waals equations of state.
This structure resembles those derived from various nuclear
theories [33,34] depending on the effective forces chosen,
such as the Skyrme effective interaction and finite-temperature
Hartree-Fock theory [33]. The line AB is exactly a part of the
spinodal one which delimits the instability condition,
∂P
< 0.
∂ρB T
The segments of those isotherms below the abscissa axis,
which satisfy this condition, correspond to metastable states
with negative pressure [35]. We show in Fig. 6 the μB
dependence of nuclear density at several values of temperature.
Combining Figs. 5 and 6 together indicates that the phase
transition takes place at a critical point ρc ∼ 0.3–0.4ρ0 for
Tc ∼ 16–18 MeV, which is consistent with other considerations [2].
It is worth pointing out that a first-order phase transition
is characterized by the latent heat emitted during transition.
Let us focus on the behavior of the energy density given by
Eq. (16) for T varying around T = 20 MeV. As is seen in
Fig. 7, for T < 20 MeV the energy density has a jump and an
2.0
1.5
3
150
100
P MeV fm
T MeV
200
50
T
0
0
gas
CEP
liquid
800
1000
20 MeV
200
400
600
T
1.0
30
T
15
T
0.0
C
T
10
B
0.5
1200
20
0.5
T
A
µ B MeV
1.0
0.0
FIG. 3. (Color online) The phase diagram of a chiral condensate
in the (T , μB ) plane. The solid line means a first-order phase
transition. CEP (T = 20 MeV, μB = 907 MeV) is the critical end
point. The dashed line denotes a crossover transition.
0.2
0.4
0.6
5
T
0.8
0
1.0
1.2
ρB ρ0
FIG. 5. (Color online) The EoS for several temperature steps.
ABC is the spinodal line.
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500
P MeV fm
3
Symmetric Nuclear Matter
100
50
10
5
Expt.
1
1
2
3
4
5
ρB ρ0
FIG. 6. (Color online) The μB dependence of nuclear density at
several values of temperature.
amount of latent heat
L = E(Tc + 0) − E(Tc − 0)
is generated. If we take T = 10 MeV then L =
7.941 MeV. This value is interestingly compared with L =
8.1(±0.4)stat (+1.2 − 0.9)syst A MeV, which, for the first time,
was experimentally estimated [8] for hot, heavy Z ∼ 70
nuclei.
Finally, the theory is also highlighted by studying EoS
at high densities and zero temperature. In Figs. 8 and 9 we
show, respectively, the zero-temperature EoS for symmetric
nuclear matter and neutron matter. In each figure the shaded
region corresponds to the constraint on high-density behavior
of the pressure from simulations of flow data from heavy-ion
collision experiments [36].
V. CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK
In this paper we investigated systematically the phase
transition in chiral nuclear matter described by the ENJL
model. Our main results are summarized as follows.
FIG. 8. (Color online) The EoS of cold symmetric nuclear matter
at high baryon density. The shaded area denotes a constraint on the
high-density behavior of the pressure consistent with the experimental
flow data [36].
(i) Utilizing the effective potential in the one-loop approximation we reproduced the expected values for the inmedium mass of the nucleon and the incompressibility.
(ii) The nuclear system manifests the following scenario
of phase transitions: in the (T , μB ) plane a first-order
phase transition of the liquid-gas type occurs at T = 0,
μB = 923 MeV and extends to a second-order critical
end point CEP at T = 20 MeV, μB = 907 MeV. This
phenomenon is confirmed by considering the evolution
of the effective potential versus effective nucleon mass,
the EoS,and the T dependence of energy density.
(iii) Chiral symmetry is restored at high baryon density for
fixed T .
The first-order phase transition of symmetric nuclear matter
is the only one to be discovered in all phenomenological
models. At present, all experimental data related to multifragmentations are consistent with the concept of a nuclear liquidgas phase transition, which shows that the phase transition
is first order up to E ∗ /A = 3.8 ± 0.3 MeV, where E ∗ is the
excited energy of hot nuclei, and it becomes continuous for
300
500
850 MeV
900 MeV
908 MeV
916 MeV
Neutron Matter
3
200
P MeV fm
MeV fm
3
µB
µ
250 µB
B
µB
150
100
100
50
10
5
50
0
0
Expt.Asy_soft
Expt.Asy_stiff
20
40
60
1
1
80
T MeV
2
3
4
5
ρB ρ0
FIG. 7. (Color online) The temperature dependence of the energy
density at several values of μB .
FIG. 9. (Color online) The EoS and constraint (shaded region) on
the high-density behavior of the EoS for neutron matter [36].
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reproduces all basic static properties of nuclear matter, it might
be a good candidate for theoretically exploring the in-medium
dynamics of hadrons, such as kaon and pion condensation in
dense matter. The review papers [37,38] are very helpful for
this goal.
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