Effective Fields in Dense Quantum Chromodynamics

Abstract

In the high density, low temperature limit, Quantum Chromodynamics exhibits a transition to phases characterized by color superconductivity and energy gaps in the fermion spectra. We review some fundamental results obtained in this area and in particular we describe the low energy effective lagrangian describing the motion of the quasi-particles in the high density medium (High Density Effective Theory).

17 pages, Invited review talk at Workshop on Quark Gluon Plasma and Relativistic Heavy Ions, Frascati, Italy, 14-18 Jan 2002

References in corpus (6)

• The Condensed Matter Physics of QCD
• The Crystallography of Color Superconductivity
• Effective Description of QCD at Very High Densities
• Opening the Crystalline Color Superconductivity Window
• Relativistic Massive Vector Condensation
• Vector Condensation at Large Chemical Potential