The Bogoliubov-Valatin variational method is used to show analytically that the chiralinvariant vacuum is unstable for a color, fourth-component vector linear potential. The physical origin of the instability is the fermion self-energy, which is negative and overcomes the positive potential energy, destabilizing the vacuum by pair condensation.
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