Abstract.The nontrivial vacuum structures and the corresponding emergent properties of quarks have been studied in Friedberg-Lee model at finite temperatures. It is indicated that before deconfinement the quarks emerge as bound states which represent hadron states. After deconfinement the quarks emerge as scattering correlated states which correspond to liquid states.
IntroductionQuantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the fundamental theory of strong interaction. The study of the QCD vacuum is a very nontrivial issue in high energy and nuclear physics. The usual vacuum can be viewed as a kind of substance filled with condensations of quarks and gluons due to the nonperturbative nature of QCD. If there are valence quarks in the vacuum, those quarks will be confined in hadron states [1]. This is the usual confinement which can be viewed as an emergent phenomenon of quarks in the normal vacuum. However, according to the view of T. D. Lee, the vacuum is a real substance whose properties could be changed. In 1970s T. D. Lee had proposed "vacuum engineering" [2]. The central idea was to change the vacuum by heavy ion collisions and produce deconfined quarks and gluons. By heating the vacuum, which means by high energy collisions of heavy nuclei, the tremendous kinetic energy is converted to the heat energy of the fireball in the center region of the collision, where the vacuum condensations are melted and the quarks and gluons are deconfined. In the experiments of relativistic heavy ion collisions (RHIC) in Brookhaven National Lab (BNL), a new emergent state of quarks and gluons has finally formed in a small region of deconfined vacuum at high temperatures, which is called strongly interacting quark gluon plasma (sQGP) [3][4][5][6]. The collective flows in heavy ion collisions known as the radial and elliptic flow could be well described by ideal hydrodynamics which means the sQGP at RHIC is the most perfect liquid [7].Though sQGP has been produced by the RHIC, we still lack understanding about the nonperturbative vacuum of QCD. In the early years, like in 1970s, T. D. Lee used a phenomenological scalar field to describe the complicated nonperturbative features of QCD vacuum [2]. He has further introduced a phenomenological model which is called Friedberg-Lee (FL) model to study the confinement and hadron properties in the vacuum [1]. The model consists of quark fields interacting