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Single-flavour and two-flavour pairing in three-flavour quark matter
Mark Alford, Greig Cowan
We study single-flavour quark pairing ("self-pairing") in colour-superconducting phases of quark matter, paying particular attention to the difference between scenarios where all t…
Color superconductivity and the strange quark
Mark G Alford
At ultra-high density, matter is expected to form a degenerate Fermi gas of quarks in which there is a condensate of Cooper pairs of quarks near the Fermi surface: color supercondu…
On Math, Matter and Mind
Piet Hut, Mark Alford, Max Tegmark
We discuss the nature of reality in the ontological context of Penrose's math-matter-mind triangle. The triangle suggests the circularity of the widespread view that math arises fr…
Secondary pairing in gapless color-superconducting quark matter
Mark Alford, Qing-hai Wang
We calculate secondary pairing in a model of a color superconductor with a quadratic gapless dispersion relation for the quasiquarks of the primary pairing. Our model mimics the ph…
Isospin asymmetry and type-I superconductivity in neutron star matter
Mark Alford, Gerald Good, Sanjay Reddy
It has been argued by Buckley et. al.(Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 151102, 2004) that nuclear matter is a type-I rather than a type-II superconductor. The suggested mechanism is a strong i…
Photons in gapless color-flavor-locked quark matter
Mark Alford, Qinghai Wang
We calculate the Debye and Meissner masses of a gauge boson in a material consisting of two species of massless fermions that form a condensate of Cooper pairs. We perform the calc…