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In a quantum illumination (QI) protocol, the task is to detect the presence of the target which is typically modelled by a partially reflecting beam splitter. We analyze the performance of QI when the target absorbs part of the light that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Rivu Gupta , Saptarshi Roy , Tamoghna Das , Aditi Sen De

We recently argued that as the density of quark matter decreases, there is a continuous transition from the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase to a gapless "gCFL" phase. The reason is the growing importance of the strange quark mass, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Mark Alford , Chris Kouvaris , Krishna Rajagopal

We calculate color screening mass in a thermalized and magnetized QCD matter in the frame of loop resummation theory without restriction to the magnetic field strength. Our full calculation covers the often used approximations for weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 Guojun Huang , Jiaxing Zhao , Pengfei Zhuang

After an introduction to the phases of QCD at high density and zero temperature, we introduce the effective lagrangian for the CFL phase and discuss the perturbative evaluation of its parameters

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Casalbuoni

After a brief review of the phenomena expected in cold dense quark matter, color superconductivity and color-flavor locking, we sketch some implications of recent developments in our understanding of cold dense quark matter for the physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Alford , Jeffrey A. Bowers , Krishna Rajagopal

We discuss a novel cold dark matter candidate which is formed from the ordinary quarks during the QCD phase transition when the axion domain wall undergoes an unchecked collapse due to the tension in the wall. If a large number of quarks is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

At ultra-high density, matter is expected to form a degenerate Fermi gas of quarks in which there is a condensate of Cooper pairs of quarks near the Fermi surface: color superconductivity. In this chapter we review some of the underlying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-09 Mark Alford , Krishna Rajagopal

We show theoretically that a directional dipole wave can be perfectly reflected by a single point-like oscillating dipole. Furthermore, we find that in the case of a strongly focused plane wave up to 85 % of the incident light can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Zumofen , N. M. Mojarad , V. Sandoghdar , M. Agio

Q-ball dark matter is one of the candidates for the macroscopic dark matter: Q-ball is a non-topological solitonic configuration, whose stability can be ensured by global charge and energy conservation. One of the crucial factors for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-02 Ayuki Kamada , Takumi Kuwahara , Keiichi Watanabe

We compute the pressure, chiral condensate and strange quark number susceptibility from perturbative QCD up to two-loop order at finite temperature and very high magnetic fields with physical quark masses. We also discuss the case of cold…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-08 Eduardo S. Fraga , Letícia F. Palhares , Tulio E. Restrepo

The classical motion at a conical surface is bounded at one (narrower) side of the cone and unbounded at the other. However, it is shown here that a dielectric cone with a small half-angle gamma can perform as a high Q-factor optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Sumetsky

The maximum entropy method is used to compute the dressed-quark spectral density from the self-consistent numerical solution of a rainbow truncation of QCD's gap equation at temperatures above that for which chiral symmetry is restored. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-08 Si-xue Qin , Lei Chang , Yu-xin Liu , Craig D. Roberts

Color confinement is only a supposition, which has not been proved in QCD yet. It is proposed here that macroscopic quark gluon plasma in astrophysics could hardly maintain colorless because of causality. The authors expected that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-11 Congxin Qiu , Renxin Xu

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

It is shown that the quark mass density-dependent model can not be used to explain the process of the quark deconfinement phase transition because the quark confinement is permanent in this model. A quark mass density- and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yun Zhang et. al

The propagator of confined quarks is calculated for timelike momenta by transforming Minkowski Greens functions to the Temporal Euclidean space. Based on the framework of the Schwinger-Dyson equations the QCD quark propagator is obtained in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-26 V. Sauli

Dark Matter might be an accidentally stable baryon of a new confining gauge interaction. We extend previous studies exploring the possibility that the DM is made of dark quarks heavier than the dark confinement scale. The resulting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-21 Andrea Mitridate , Michele Redi , Juri Smirnov , Alessandro Strumia

It is shown by particle-in-cell simulation that intense circularly polarized (CP) laser light can be contained in the cavity of a solid-density circular Al-plasma shell for hundreds of light-wave periods before it is dissipated by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 X. H. Yang , W. Yu , M. Y. Yu , H. Xu , Y. Y. Ma , Z. M. Sheng , H. B. Zhuo , Z. Y. Ge , F. Q. Shao

Cold dense quark matter is in a crystalline color superconducting phase wherever pairing occurs between species of quarks with chemical potentials whose difference \delta\mu lies within an appropriate window. If the interaction between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Adam K. Leibovich , Krishna Rajagopal , Eugene Shuster

We discuss a one-quark state in the confinement phase near a reflective chromometallic boundary both at finite and zero temperature. Using numerical simulations of lattice Yang-Mills theory, we show that the test quark is confined to the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-03 Maxim N. Chernodub , Vladimir A. Goy , Alexander V. Molochkov , Alexey S. Tanashkin