Instabilities in two flavor quark matter

Abstract

I discuss briefly the instabilities of two flavor quark matter, paying attention to the gradient instability which develops in the g2SC phase in the Goldstone $U(1{)}_A$ sector.

6 pages. Talk given at QCD@Work07, Martina Franca (Italy). Some typos corrected, one reference added

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