3 papers
nucl-th2008★ 23 cited
Thickness of the strangelet-crystal crust of a strange star
Mark G. Alford, David A. Eby
It has recently been pointed out that if the surface tension of quark matter is low enough, the surface of a strange star will be a crust consisting of a crystal of charged strange…
nucl-th2008★ 44 cited
Bulk viscosity in kaon-condensed color-flavor locked quark matter
Mark G. Alford, Matt Braby, Andreas Schmitt
Color-flavor locked (CFL) quark matter at high densities is a color superconductor, which spontaneously breaks baryon number and chiral symmetry. Its low-energy thermodynamic and t…
nucl-th2007★ 50 cited
Flux tubes and the type-I/type-II transition in a superconductor coupled to a superfluid
Mark G. Alford, Gerald Good
We analyze magnetic flux tubes at zero temperature in a superconductor that is coupled to a superfluid via both density and gradient (``entrainment'') interactions. The example we…