Fractionalized Quasiparticles in Dense Baryonic Matter

Abstract

I discuss a novel scenario on how baryonic matter could turn into a Fermi liquid of fractionalized baryons driven by high density inside compact stars. It involves the "hidden" local vector bosons $\rho$ and $\omega$ together with the "hidden" scale symmetry dilaton $\chi$, both taken to be "dual" to the quarks and gluons of QCD in the sense of quark $\leftrightarrow$ hadron duality and offers a possibility, exploiting the "Cheshire Cat Principle", to unify the "dichotomy" of baryons described in terms of skyrmions and fractional quantum Hall (FQH) droplets {\it and} to explore how the baryonic matter could behave as density goes way beyond the normal nuclear matter density to the density regime where "deconfined" quarks are presumed to figure. The question is raised as to whether the fractionalized characteristics of the "stuff" -- whatever they are -- can be "probed" in the dense star core of compact stars.

16 pages, no figures; rewritten with current developments added

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