Published December 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Color magnetic flux tubes in dense QCD

  • 1. Theoretical Physics Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, and Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521 (Japan)

Description

QCD is expected to be in the color-flavor locking phase in high baryon density, which exhibits color superconductivity. The most fundamental topological objects in the color superconductor are non-Abelian vortices which are topologically stable color magnetic flux tubes. We present numerical solutions of the color magnetic flux tube for diverse choices of the coupling constants based on the Ginzburg-Landau Lagrangian. We also analytically study its asymptotic profiles and find that they are different from the case of usual superconductors. We propose the width of color magnetic fluxes and find that it is larger than naive expectation of the Compton wavelength of the massive gluon when the gluon mass is larger than the scalar mass.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 125007-125007.12
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2009 The American Physical Society