# First-order chiral phase transition may naturally lead to the “quenched” initial condition and strong soft-pion fields

## ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the Yale Relativistic Heavy Ion Group for kind hospitality and support from grant no. DE-FG02-91ER-40609. Also, we gratefully acknowledge fruitful discussions with A.D. Jackson, I. Mishustin, D.H. Rischke, J. Schaffner and U.A. Wiedemann. We thank D.H. Rischke for reading the manuscript prior to publication.