Published July 18, 2003
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Journal article
Breached pairing superfluidity: Possible realization in QCD
- 1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
Description
We propose a wide universality class of gapless superfluids, and analyze a limit that might be realized in quark matter at intermediate densities. In the breached pairing color superconducting phase heavy s quarks, with a small Fermi surface, pair with light u or d quarks. The ground state has a superfluid and a normal Fermi component simultaneously. We expect a second-order phase transition, as a function of increasing density, from the breached pairing phase to the conventional color-flavor locked phase
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.032001;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0304016v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 91
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 032001-032001.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35048169
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COLOR MODEL; D QUARKS; FLAVOR MODEL; GROUND STATES; NEUTRON STARS; NUCLEAR MATTER; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARK MATTER; S QUARKS; SUPERFLUIDITY; U QUARKS
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY LEVELS; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL; QUARKS; STARS; STRANGE PARTICLES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2003 The American Physical Society