Fate of the inert three-flavor, spin-zero color-superconducting phases

Abstract

I investigate some of the inert phases in three-flavor, spin-zero color-superconducting quark matter: the CFL phase (the analogue of the B phase in superfluid ${}^3\mathrm{He}$), the A and A* phases, and the 2SC and sSC phases. I compute the pressure of these phases with and without the neutrality condition. It is shown that the 2SC phase is identical to the A* phase up to a color rotation. The CFL phase is the energetically favored phase except for a small region of intermediate densities where the 2SC/A* phase is favored.

arXiv comment9 pages, 1 figure; the version accepted to publish in PRD

References in corpus (31)

• QCD at Finite Baryon Density: Nucleon Droplets and Color Superconductivity
• Color-Flavor Locking and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in High Density QCD
• Diquark Bose Condensates in High Density Matter and Instantons
• Hadronization in the SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model
• The phase diagram of neutral quark matter: Self-consistent treatment of quark masses
• Gapless two-flavor color superconductor
• High Density Quark Matter under Stress
• Absence of two-flavor color-superconductivity in compact stars
• Color-Neutral Superconducting Quark Matter
• Gapless Color-Flavor-Locked Quark Matter
• Patterns of Symmetry Breaking in QCD at High Baryon Density
• Gapless color superconductivity at zero and at finite temperature
• Novel phases and transitions in Color Flavor Locked matter
• Chromomagnetic instability in dense quark matter
• On gap equations and color-flavor locking in cold dense QCD with three massless flavors
• Charge Neutrality Effects on 2-flavor Color Superconductivity
• Meissner masses in the gCFL phase of QCD
• Screening masses in neutral two-flavor color superconductor
• The ground state in a spin-one color superconductor
• Photons in gapless color-flavor-locked quark matter
• When the Transition Temperature in Color Superconductors is Not Like in BCS Theory
• Phase diagram of dense neutral three-flavor quark matter
• Kaon Condensation in High Density Quark Matter
• Heating (Gapless) Color-Flavor Locked Quark Matter
• A note on color neutrality in NJL-type models
• Gauge dependence identities for color superconducting QCD
• Gluons, tadpoles, and color neutrality in a two-flavor color superconductor
• Phase diagram of neutral quark matter in nonlocal chiral quark models
• The phase diagram of neutral quark matter: The effect of neutrino trapping
• Charge Neutrality of the Color-Flavor Locked Phase from the Low Energy Effective Theory
• Stressed pairing in conventional color superconductors is unavoidable

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Color superconductivity in dense quark matter