  The formation of inhomogeneous chiral condensates in QCD matter at nonzero
density and temperature is investigated for the first time with Dyson-Schwinger
equations. We consider two massless quark flavors in a so-called chiral density
wave, where scalar and pseudoscalar quark condensates vary sinusoidally along
one spatial dimension. We find that the inhomogeneous region covers the major
part of the spinodal region of the first-order phase transition which is
present when the analysis is restricted to homogeneous phases. The triple point
where the inhomogeneous phase meets the homogeneous phases with broken and
restored chiral symmetry, respectively, coincides, within numerical accuracy,
with the critical point of the homogeneous calculation. At zero temperature,
the inhomogeneous phase seems to extend to arbitrarily high chemical
potentials, as long as pairing effects are not taken into account.
