Novel Lifshitz point for chiral transition in the magnetic field

Understand

Based on the generalized Ginzburg-Landau theory, chiral phase transition is discussed in the presence of magnetic field.

• Considering the chiral density wave we show chiral anomaly gives rise to an inhomogeneous chiral phase for nonzero quark-number chemical potential.
• Novel Lifshitz point appears on the vanishing chemical potential line, which may be directly explored by the lattice QCD simulation.