Color superconductivity in dense quark matter

MG Alford, A Schmitt, K Rajagopal, T Schäfer - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2008 - APS
Matter at high density and low temperature is expected to be a color superconductor, which
is a degenerate Fermi gas of quarks with a condensate of Cooper pairs near the Fermi …

Crystalline color superconductors

R Anglani, R Casalbuoni, M Ciminale, N Ippolito… - Reviews of Modern …, 2014 - APS
Inhomogeneous superconductors and inhomogeneous superfluids appear in a variety of
contexts including quark matter at extreme densities, fermionic systems of cold atoms, type-II …

The phase diagram of dense QCD

K Fukushima, T Hatsuda - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The current status of theoretical studies on the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase
diagram at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential is reviewed with special …

Equation of state for the magnetic-color-flavor-locked phase<? format?> and its implications for compact star models

L Paulucci, EJ Ferrer, V de La Incera, JE Horvath - Physical Review D …, 2011 - APS
Using the solutions of the gap equations of the magnetic-color-flavor-locked (MCFL) phase
of paired quark matter in a magnetic field, and taking into consideration the separation …

Magnetic phases in three-flavor color superconductivity

EJ Ferrer, V de La Incera - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation …, 2007 - APS
The best natural candidates for the realization of color superconductivity are quark stars—
not yet confirmed by observation—and the extremely dense cores of compact stars, many of …

Crystallography of three-flavor quark matter

K Rajagopal, R Sharma - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation …, 2006 - APS
We analyze and compare candidate crystal structures for the crystalline color
superconducting phase that may arise in cold, dense but not asymptotically dense, three …

Evaluating the phase diagram at finite isospin and baryon chemical potentials<? format?> in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model

C Mu, L He, Y Liu - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2010 - APS
We study the phase diagram of two-flavor dense QCD at finite isospin and baryon chemical
potentials in the framework of the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. We focus on the case with …

Rigidity of crystalline color superconducting quark matter

M Mannarelli, K Rajagopal, R Sharma - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2007 - APS
We calculate the shear modulus of crystalline color superconducting quark matter, showing
that this phase of dense, but not asymptotically dense, three-flavor quark matter responds to …

Phase diagram of two-color quark matter at nonzero baryon and isospin density

JO Andersen, T Brauner - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation …, 2010 - APS
We investigate the properties of cold dense quark matter composed of two colors and two
flavors of light quarks. In particular, we perform the first model calculation of the full phase …

LOFF pairing vs breached pairing in asymmetric fermion superfluids

L He, M Jin, P Zhuang - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2006 - APS
A general analysis for the competition between breached pairing (BP) and LOFF pairing
mechanisms in asymmetric fermion superfluids is presented in the frame of a four fermion …