Soliton matter and the onset of color conductivity

Soliton matter as a model of dense nuclear matter

“…In this paper we will report on the start that we have made on such a program. 12 It is far from finished and there remain serious problems to be overcome. However the picture of color conductivity that emerges seems in itself to be a novel and interesting one.…”

The hadron-quark transition with a lattice of nonlocal confining solitons

“…Soliton matter was proposed as a model of dense nuclear matter by several authors [1][2][3]. In the following we focus attention on the behavior of soliton matter as a function of density at zero temperature.…”

“…Following earlier calculations for soliton matter [1,5], we address the problem in the Wigner-Seitz approximation [18]. Introducing a spherical Wigner-Seitz cell of radius R permits the decomposition of the quark spinors as…”

“…We follow Ref. [1] and identify the onset of color conductivity with the deconfinement transition. The value of the critical density ρ c in the model depends on the assumptions on band filling.…”

“…for the upper and lower components of the quark spinors corresponding to the lowest-energy state in each energy band [1,5].…”