3D two-color QCD at finite temperature and baryon density Original Research Article

We study the phase diagram for two-color QCD in three-dimensional spacetime, as a function of temperature and baryon chemical potential, using the low-energy effective Lagrangian approach. We show one-loop renormalizability at zero temperature, and then use the one-loop effective Lagrangian at finite temperature and chemical potential to show that at low temperature there is a critical line separating the normal and diquark phase, with this critical line ending at a tricritical point. This phase structure is qualitatively similar to that found recently by Splittorff et al. for two-color QCD in four-dimensional spacetime, although the details are quite different, due to the different symmetries and the different loop and infrared properties of three-dimensional spacetime.