Orateur
Andreas Schmitt
Description
Cold and dense QCD matter may break rotational invariance spontaneously. One anisotropic candidate phase is the chiral density wave, where the chiral condensate oscillates between scalar and pseudoscalar sectors. I will present results from a nucleon-meson model that allows for a chiral phase transition. Taking into account the conditions in the interior of neutron stars and constraints from astrophysical data this model predicts the chiral density wave to be absent from neutron star cores. I will compare these results to a calculation within holography, where the nuclear chiral density wave has been constructed recently for the first time.