Breached pairing superfluidity: Possible realization in QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v2 Condensed Matter
Abstract
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 -quarks, with a small Fermi surface, pair with light or quarks. The groundstate 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 (CFL) phase.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0304016,
title = {Breached pairing superfluidity: Possible realization in QCD},
author = {Elena Gubankova and W. Vincent Liu and Frank Wilczek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0304016},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, latex, 1 figure; added references; Comment on Ref. [10] changed