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Gapless color superconductivity

Alford1, Berges, Rajagopal

  • 1Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|October 4, 2000
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We explored quasiparticle excitations in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at high baryon density. Our analysis suggests gapless color superconductivity might be a metastable phase, lacking a minimum excitation energy.

Area of Science:

  • High-energy physics
  • Condensed matter physics
  • Quantum chromodynamics

Background:

  • Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) describes the strong interaction between quarks and gluons.
  • At high baryon densities, QCD matter is expected to form color superconducting states.
  • Understanding the properties of these states is crucial for nuclear physics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the dispersion relations of quasiparticle excitations in the color-flavor locked (CFL) ground state of QCD at high baryon density.
  • To determine the conditions under which gapless color superconductivity can occur.
  • To analyze the stability of such a phase.

Main Methods:

  • Calculation of dispersion relations for quasiparticle excitations.
  • Analysis of condensates pairing light and strange quarks.

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  • Employing a toy model for stability analysis.

    • Main Results:

    • Dispersion relations for quasiparticle excitations in the CFL ground state were derived.
    • The presence of condensates pairing light and strange quarks can lead to an energy gapless quasiparticle spectrum.
    • A Meissner effect is possible in the absence of a minimum excitation energy.

    Conclusions:

    • Gapless color superconductivity is a possibility under specific conditions of quark pairing.
    • Analysis within a toy model indicates that gapless color superconductivity may only exist as a metastable phase.
    • Further research is needed to confirm the existence and properties of this phase in realistic scenarios.