Intriguing aspects of meson condensation

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We analyze various aspects of pion and kaon condensation in the framework of chiral perturbation theory.

• Considering a system at vanishing temperature and varying the isospin chemical potential and the strange quark chemical potential we reproduce known results about the phase transition to the pion condensation phase and to the kaon condensation phase.
• However, we obtain mesonic mixings and masses in the condensed phases that are in disagreement with the results reported in previous works.
• Our findings are obtained both by a theory group analysis and by direct calculation by means of the same low-energy effective Lagrangian used in previous works.