Properties of QCD axion in two-flavor color superconductive matter with massive quarks (2501.04560v2)

Abstract: We investigate the properties of QCD axion at low temperature and moderate density in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with instanton induced interactions by simultaneously considering the scalar and pseudo-scalar condensates in both quark-antiquark and diquark channels. We derive the analytical dispersion relations of quarks with four-type condensates at nonzero theta angle $\theta=a/f_a$. The axion mass, quartic self-coupling, and the axion potential are calculated in both the chiral symmetry breaking and two-flavor color superconducting phases. Using the commonly adopted model parameters, we find that due to the emergence of color superconductivity, the chiral phase transition not only does not lead to a significant decrease in axion mass and self-coupling, but rather results in an obvious enhancement of them. As a $\theta$ function, the axion potential exhibits an appropriate period of $\pi$, which is quite different from the case without considering the color superconductivity. The surface tension of axion domain wall is also calculated in the presence of color superconductivity.