Anisotropic Optical Response of Dense Quark Matter under Rotation: Compact Stars as Cosmic Polarizers
arXiv:1203.5059 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.062501
Abstract
Quantum vortices in the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase of QCD have bosonic degrees of freedom, called the orientational zero modes, localized on them. We show that the orientational zero modes are electromagnetically charged. As a result, a vortex in the CFL phase nontrivially interacts with photons. We show that a lattice of vortices acts as a polarizer of photons with wavelengths larger than some critical length.
8 pages, 1 figure; v2: published version in Phys. Rev. Lett
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