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UWO-TH-07/06 Dynamics with Vector Condensates at Finite Density in QCD and Beyond 7 0 V. A. Miransky∗) 0 2 v Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, o N London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada 7 and 2 Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto v 4 9 606–8502, Japan 2 3 0 7 0 / h p - p Abstract e h : I describe the dynamics in recently revealed phases with vector condensates of v i gauge fields in dense QCD (gluonic phase) and other gauge models. In this case, the X r Higgs mechanism is provided by condensates of gauge (or gauge plus scalar) fields. a Because most of the initial symmetries in such systems are spontaneously broken, their dynamics is very rich. In particular, by using the Ginzburg-Landau approach, the existence of a gluonic phase with both the rotational symmetry and the electromagnetic U (1) being spontaneously broken was established. In other words, this phase describes an anisotropic superconductor. In the dual (confinement) description of this dynamics in dense two-flavor QCD, there are light exotic vector hadrons in the spectrum, some of which condense. There are also vortex-like and roton-like excitations in these phases. ∗) e-mail address: vmiransk@uwo.ca 1 §1. Introduction In this review, I summarize results obtained by our group in the description of the dy- namics in recently revealed phases with vector condensates of gauge fields i