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Chromomagnetic Instability and the LOFF state in a two flavor Color Superconductor

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2 Superconductivity Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We explore the relation between the chromomagnetic instability of a homogeneous two flavor color superconductor and the LOFF state. We perturb the free energy of the 2SC by generating a small net momentum for the quark pair. We find that the imaginary Meissner mass of a particular gluon implies that the LOFF state is energetically favored.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0412015,
  title  = {Chromomagnetic Instability and the LOFF state in a two flavor Color Superconductor},
  author = {Ioannis Giannakis and Hai-Cang Ren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0412015},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, no figures, latex, discussion on charge neutrality, new references were added