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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 ss-quarks, with a small Fermi surface, pair with light uu or dd 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.

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@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