Characteristic aspects of pion condensed phases

Abstract

Characteristic aspects of pion-condensed phases are described in a simple model, for the system involving only nucleons and pions which interact through the π−N P-wave interaction. We consider one typical version in each of three kinds of pion condensation; the one of neutral pions (π 0 ), the one of charged pions (π c ) and the combined one in which both the π 0 and π c condensations are coexistent. Emphasis is put on the description to clarify the novel structures of the nucleon system which are realized in the pion-condensed phases. At first, it is shown that the π 0 condensation is equivalent to the particular nucleonic phase realized by a structure change of the nucleon system, where the attractive first-order effect of the one-pion-exchange (OPE) tensor force is brought about coherently