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Departures of thermodynamic properties of three-dimensional superfluid $^3$He from the predictions of BCS theory are analyzed. Attention is focused on deviations of the ratios $\Delta(T=0)/T_c$ and $[C_s(T_c)-C_n(T_c)]/C_n(T_c)$ from their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 M. V. Zverev , V. A. Khodel , J. W. Clark

After a brief historical overview of superfluidity in connection with neutron matter and cold fermionic atoms, we discuss the commonalities between these two systems as well as their relevance to the physics of neutron star crusts. We then…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-26 Alexandros Gezerlis , J. Carlson

Baryon and quark superfluidity in the cooling of neutron stars are investigated. Observations could constrain combinations of the neutron or Lambda-hyperon pairing gaps and the star's mass. However, in a hybrid star with a mixed phase of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Dany Page , Madappa Prakash , James M. Lattimer , Andrew Steiner

According to quantum chromodynamics, matter at ultra-high density and low temperature is a quark liquid, with a condensate of Cooper pairs of quarks near the Fermi surface ("color superconductivity"). This paper reviews the physics of color…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Mark G. Alford

We present a detailed theoretical study of light scattering off superfluid trapped Fermi gas of atoms at zero temperature. We apply Nambu-Gorkov formalism of superconductivity to calculate the response function of superfluid gas due to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Bimalendu Deb

We investigate effects of thermal and quantum fluctuations of the superfluid order parameter in $^1S_{0}$ superfluids in neutron stars. We construct a separable potential to reproduce the $^1S_{0}$ phase shift reconstructed by using the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-08 Daisuke Inotani , Shigehiro Yasui , Muneto Nitta

I review three problems in astrophysics of compacts stars: (i) the phase diagram of warm pair-correlated nuclear matter a sub-saturation densities at finite isospin asymmtery; (ii) the Standard Model neutrino emission from superfluid phases…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-28 Armen Sedrakian

S-wave pairing in neutron matter is studied within an extension of correlated basis function (CBF) theory to include the strong, short range spatial correlations due to realistic nuclear forces and the pairing correlations of the Bardeen,…

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The linear response of a neutron spin-triplet superfluid onto external weak axial-vector field is studied for the case of $^{3}P_{2}$ pairing with a projection of the total angular momentum $m_{j}=0$. The problem is considered in the BCS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 L. B. Leinson

Motivated by recent experimental advances in ultracold atoms, we analyze a non-Hermitian (NH) BCS Hamiltonian with a complex-valued interaction arising from inelastic scattering between fermions. We develop a mean-field theory to obtain a…

The superfluid dark matter model offers an elegant solution to reconcile discrepancies between the predictions of the cold dark matter paradigm and observations on galactic scales. In this scenario, dark matter is composed of ultralight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Lasha Berezhiani , Giordano Cintia , Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury

We present a Quantum Monte Carlo study of the zero temperature equation of state of neutron matter and the computation of the $^1S_0$ pairing gap in the low-density regime with $\rho<0.04$ fm$^{-3}$. The system is described by a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Gandolfi , A. Yu. Illarionov , S. Fantoni , F. Pederiva , K. E. Schmidt

We discuss various properties of singlet S pairing in neutron and nuclear matter in terms of the bare nuclon-nucleon interaction. Relations to the NN phase shifts are discussed, as well as various properties of the BCS wave function and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Elgaroy , M. Hjorth-Jensen

We present a Newtonian multi-fluid formalism for superfluid neutron star cores, focussing on the additional dissipative terms that arise when one takes into account the individual dynamical degrees of freedom associated with the coupled…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Haskell , N. Andersson , G. L. Comer

Josephson-like junctions, transiently established in heavy ion collisions between superfluid nuclei, few MeV below the Coulomb barrier, allow for the back and forth transfer of a nuclear Cooper pair of effectively charged nucleons and thus…

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Phase transitions of matter under changes of external environment such as temperature and magnetic field have attracted great interests to various quantum many-body systems. Several phase transitions must have occurred in neutron stars as…

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We propose a spectroscopic probe of the breaking and localization of Cooper pairs in an atomic Fermi superfluid interacting with a Rydberg impurity. This is achieved by monitoring the formation of diatomic and triatomic ultralong-range…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-19 Chih-Chun Chien , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Hossein R. Sadeghpour

The equation of state of deconfined strongly interacting matter at high densities remains an open question, with effects from quark pairing in the preferred color-flavor-locked (CFL) ground state possibly playing an important role. Recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 Andreas Geißel , Tyler Gorda , Jens Braun

Despite their feeble interactions, dense astrophysical neutrinos can behave collectively, exchanging flavor through waves of the neutrino plasma. Can collective interactions also induce pairing instabilities and reorganize the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg G. Raffelt , Günter Sigl

We study the ${}^{1}S_0$ proton pairing gap in beta-equilibrated neutron star matter within the framework of chiral effective field theory. We focus on the role of three-body forces, which strongly modify the effective proton-proton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 Yeunhwan Lim , Jeremy W. Holt