%0 Journal Article %T Skyrmions at high density %A Vento, V. %J International Journal of Modern Physics E %D 2017 %V 26 %N 1-2 %I World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd %@ 0218-3013 %G English %F Vento2017 %O WOS:000395110800033 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2994), last updated on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 09:28:01 +0000 %X The phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics is conjectured to have a rich structure containing at least three forms of matter: hadronic nuclear matter, quarkyonic matter and quark-gluon plasma. We justify the origin of the quarkyonic phase transition in a chiral-quark model and describe its formulation in terms of Skyrme crystals. %K Quark %K pion %K Skyrmion %K dilation %R 10.1142/S0218301317400298 %U https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218301317400298 %P 1740029 - 15pp