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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,468 Views
16 Pages

Supersymmetric NJL-Type Model for a Real Superfield Composite

  • Yifan Cheng,
  • Yan-Min Dai,
  • Gaber Faisel and
  • Otto C. W. Kong

11 December 2019

The Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model is a classic theory for the strong dynamics of composite fields and symmetry breaking. Supersymmetric versions of the NJL-type models are certainly of interest too. Particularly, the case with a composite (Hig...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,956 Views
16 Pages

2 August 2021

In a one-flavor NJL model with a finite temperature, chemical potential, and external magnetic field, the self-energy of the quark propagator contains more condensates besides the vacuum condensate. We use Fierz identity to identify the self-energy a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue QCD- and QED-Like Theories and Symmetry)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,410 Views
23 Pages

Further Studies of the Supersymmetric NJL-Type Model for a Real Superfield Composite

  • Yifan Cheng,
  • Yan-Min Dai,
  • Gaber Faisel and
  • Otto C. W. Kong

2 November 2020

This is a sequel to our earlier paper presenting a supersymmetric Nambu–Jona–Lasinio (NJL)-type model for a real superfield composite. The model in the simplest version has only a chiral superfield (multiplet), with a strong four-superfie...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,521 Views
16 Pages

13 January 2021

We study the hadron–quark hybrid equation of state (EOS) of compact-star matter. The Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) local SU (3) model with vector-type interaction is used to describe the quark matter phase, while the relativistic mean field (R...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Relativistic Gravity, Cosmology and Physics of Compact Stars)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,904 Views
14 Pages

1 March 2022

The NJL model of one-flavor quark is employed to study the properties of QCD mater with finite temperature, external magnetic field, and chiral chemical potential. Through the mean-field approximation and a self-consistent method, a non-perturbative...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,176 Views
18 Pages

Effects of Hadron-Quark Phase Transitions in Hybrid Stars within the NJL Model

  • Ignacio Francisco Ranea-Sandoval,
  • Milva Gabriela Orsaria,
  • Germán Malfatti,
  • Daniela Curin and ,
  • Mauro Mariani,
  • Gustavo Aníbal Contrera and
  • Octavio Miguel Guilera
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 March 2019

We study local and non-local Polyakov Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models and analyze their respective phase transition diagram. We construct hybrid stars using the zero temperature limit of the local and non-local versions of Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model for quar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and its applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,525 Views
53 Pages

Low-Energy Interactions of Mesons with Participation of the First Radially Excited States in U(3) × U(3) NJL Model

  • Mikhail Konstantinovich Volkov,
  • Aleksey Aleksandrovich Pivovarov and
  • Kanat Nurlan

2 February 2022

The U(3)×U(3) chiral symmetric NJL model describing pseudoscalar, vector, and axial-vector mesons in both the ground state and first radially excited states is shortly presented in this review. In this model, it is possible to describe a large...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,686 Views
26 Pages

11 December 2024

We study spontaneous the spin polarization of quark matter with flavor SU(2) symmetry at zero temperature in the NJL model. In a relativistic framework, there are two types of spin–spin interactions: axial vector (AV) and tensor (T), which acco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chiral Symmetry, and Restoration in Nuclear Dense Matter)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,160 Views
20 Pages

We study the effect of trapped neutrinos on the properties of the deconfinement phase transition from hot β-equilibrated, electrically neutral hadronic matter to quark matter. To describe the thermodynamic properties of hot hadronic matter, an e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from “The Modern Physics of Compact Stars and Relativistic Gravity 2025”)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,520 Views
14 Pages

4 April 2019

We explore the behavior of the iterative procedure to obtain the solution to the gap equation of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NLJ) model for arbitrarily large values of the coupling constant and in the presence of a magnetic field and a thermal bath. We f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and its applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,151 Views
16 Pages

Binary neutron star mergers and proto-neutron stars provide unique environments where dense matter is hot, lepton-rich, and potentially undergoes a transition from hadronic to deconfined quark matter. We investigate the thermodynamics and stellar pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from “The Modern Physics of Compact Stars and Relativistic Gravity 2025”)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,916 Views
22 Pages

18 April 2019

In this review, we present of an overview of several interesting properties of QCD at finite imaginary chemical potential and those applications to exploring the QCD phase diagram. The most important properties of QCD at a finite imaginary chemical p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and its applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,272 Views
11 Pages

Cancellation of the Sigma Mode in the Thermal Pion Gas by Quark Pauli Blocking

  • David Blaschke,
  • Alexandra Friesen and
  • Yuri Kalinovsky

13 March 2023

In this study, we calculate the pressure of the interacting pion gas using the Beth–Uhlenbeck approach to the relativistic virial expansion with Breit–Wigner phase shifts for the σ- and ϱ-meson resonances. The repulsive phase...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from ACHT 2021: Perspectives in Particle, Cosmo- and Astroparticle Theory)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,860 Views
8 Pages

The QCD Axion in Hot and Dense Matter

  • Hong-Fang Gong,
  • Qi Lu and
  • Zhen-Yan Lu

Within the framework of the two-flavor Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model, we study the quantum chromodynamics axion properties at finite temperature and chemical potential. Our analysis shows that the axion properties are strongly influenced by the crit...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on Symmetry (Symmetry 2025))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,275 Views
12 Pages

12 September 2025

In this work, we employ the nonextensive Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model to analyze the thermodynamic properties of magnetized quark matter. The nonequilibrium state is described in Tsallis distribution by a dimensionless parameter q. We find that wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Magnetized Dense Matter in Compact Stars: From Fundamental Properties to Astrophysical Observables)
  • Review
  • Open Access
539 Views
17 Pages

A Solution of the Scalar Nonet Mass Puzzle

  • Mihail Chizhov,
  • Emanuil Chizhov,
  • Daniela Kirilova and
  • Momchil Naydenov

We present a short review dedicated to low-lying meson states. We present all meson nonets, which consist from up, down and strange light quarks. We consider the scalar nonet as a basic nonet. We work in the framework of the massless Nambu–Jona...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 14th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2025))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,933 Views
32 Pages

14 May 2019

In this paper, the results of the investigation of multi-quark equations in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model in the mean-field expansion are presented. The multi-quark functions have been considered up to the third order of expansion. One of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and its applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,486 Views
18 Pages

Understanding Farm Households’ Participation in Nong Jia Le in China

  • Tie Wang,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Zhongjun Wu,
  • Ching-Hui Su and
  • Ming-Hsiang Chen

28 February 2019

As the dominant form of rural tourism (RT) in China, Nong Jia Le (NJL) has made it possible for local farm households to benefit. In this article, a four-step strategy based on binary logistic regression was introduced to identify the most important...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,440 Views
22 Pages

8 February 2024

We give a bilocal field theory description of a composite scalar with an extended binding potential that reduces to the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model in the pointlike limit. This provides a description of the internal dynamics of the bound sta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Particle Theory and Theoretical Cosmology—Dedicated to Professor Paul Howard Frampton on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,938 Views
11 Pages

26 February 2022

We employ the extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL), linear-σ models, and the density-dependent model with chiral limits to work out the mean fields and relevant properties of nuclear matter. To have the constraint from the data, we re-examine the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experiments and Theories of Radioactive Nuclear Beam Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,872 Views
11 Pages

31 December 2020

We have studied the possible isospin corrections on the skewness and kurtosis of net-baryon and net-charge fluctuations in the isospin asymmetric matter formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC-BES energies, based on a 3-flavor Polyakov-lo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: 5th Anniversary)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,621 Views
19 Pages

21 January 2025

In this paper, we conduct a thorough investigation of the surface and curvature tensions, σ and γ, of three-flavor cold quark matter using the Nambu–Jona–Lasinio (NJL) model with vector interactions. Our approach ensures both...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2024 – Compact Objects)
  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
3,739 Views
6 Pages

We construct a dense matter equation of state (EoS) starting from a hadronic density dependent relativistic mean-field model with a DD2 parametrization including the excluded volume corrections at low densities. The high density part is given by a Na...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,657 Views
24 Pages

12 April 2024

We derive a Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model from a non-local gauge theory and show that it has confining properties at low energies. In particular, we present an extended approach to non-local QCD and a complete revision of the technique of Bend...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,802 Views
24 Pages

11 June 2019

In this short review we tried to give an outline of investigations of charged pion condensation (PC) in dense baryonic (quark) matter in the framework of effective Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL)-type models. The possibility of charged PC phase in den...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and its applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,543 Views
92 Pages

12 January 2021

We review the current status of the research on effective nonlocal NJL-like chiral quark models with separable interactions, focusing on the application of this approach to the description of the properties of hadronic and quark matter under extreme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Chiral Quark Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,175 Views
31 Pages

Violation of the Conformal Limit at Finite Density: Insights from Effective Models and Lattice QCD

  • Francisco X. Azeredo,
  • Arthur Efraim Bressan Pasqualotto,
  • Bruno S. Lopes,
  • Dyana C. Duarte and
  • Ricardo L. S. Farias

25 January 2026

In this work, we discuss recent results obtained with the application of the medium separation scheme (MSS) in different contexts where a clear violation of the conformal limit for the speed of sound at finite density has been observed in Quantum Chr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chiral Symmetry, and Restoration in Nuclear Dense Matter)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,922 Views
25 Pages

Effects of a Finite Volume in the Phase Structure of QCD

  • Nallaly Berenice Mata Carrizal,
  • Enrique Valbuena Ordóñez,
  • Adrián Jacob Garza Aguirre,
  • Francisco Javier Betancourt Sotomayor and
  • José Rubén Morones Ibarra

26 April 2022

Working in the SU(2) flavor version of the NJL model, we study the effect of taking a finite system volume on a strongly interacting system of quarks, and, in particular, the location of the chiral phase transition and the CEP. We consider two shapes...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
338 Views
6 Pages

This work investigates the thermal deconfining phase transition from a hadronic gas composed of massive pions to a quark–gluon plasma (QGP) described by the Polyakov–Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model with two light quark flavors. The PNJL model extends...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 3rd International Online Conference on Universe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,147 Views
23 Pages

17 June 2020

The relativistic mean field (RMF) model of the nuclear matter equation of state was modified by including the effect of Pauli-blocking owing to quark exchange between the baryons. Different schemes of a chiral enhancement of the quark Pauli blocking...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from “The Modern Physics of Compact Stars and Relativistic Gravity 2017”)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,529 Views
15 Pages

Quark Deconfinement in Rotating Neutron Stars

  • Richard D. Mellinger,
  • Fridolin Weber,
  • William Spinella,
  • Gustavo A. Contrera and
  • Milva G. Orsaria

24 January 2017

In this paper, we use a three flavor non-local Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model, an improved effective model of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at low energies, to investigate the existence of deconfined quarks in the cores of neutron stars. Particular em...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quark-Gluon Plasma in the Early Universe and in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,060 Views
13 Pages

Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture in Super Yang-Mills Inflationary Model

  • Jafar Sadeghi,
  • Mohammad Reza Alipour and
  • Saeed Noori Gashti

25 November 2022

In this article, we want to check four inflation models, namely, composite NJL inflation (NJLI), Glueball inflation (GI), super Yang–Mills inflation (SYMI), and Orientifold inflation (OI), with two conjectures of the swampland program: scalar w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Experimental Searches)
  • Review
  • Open Access
530 Views
30 Pages

11 July 2026

We review some recent findings on thermal properties of the magnetic dual chiral density wave (MDCDW) condensate in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model of dense quark matter, as well as a convenient method for investigating this phase with a hig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Magnetized Dense Matter in Compact Stars: From Fundamental Properties to Astrophysical Observables)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,501 Views
22 Pages

26 March 2025

We describe the quark substructure of hadrons and the equation of state of high-density neutron star matter by using the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model, which is an effective quark theory based on QCD. The interaction between quarks fully respe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chiral Symmetry, and Restoration in Nuclear Dense Matter)
  • Review
  • Open Access
139 Views
22 Pages

19 October 2026

In this paper, we review the impact of a strong magnetic field on the neutral two-flavor color superconducting (2SC) phase of dense quark matter. Using a Nambu–Jona–Lasinio (NJL) model approach in the mean-field approximation, we first so...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Magnetized Dense Matter in Compact Stars: From Fundamental Properties to Astrophysical Observables)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
5,521 Views
22 Pages

Was GW170817 a Canonical Neutron Star Merger? Bayesian Analysis with a Third Family of Compact Stars

  • David Blaschke,
  • Alexander Ayriyan,
  • David Edwin Alvarez-Castillo and
  • Hovik Grigorian

We investigate the possibility that GW170817 was not the merger of two conventional neutron stars (NS), but involved at least one if not two hybrid stars with a quark matter core that might even belong to a third family of compact stars. To this end,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram and in the Multi-Messenger Era of Astronomy)