Gapless two-flavor color superconductor

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17 February 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

A new, gapless two-flavor color superconducting phase that appears under conditions of local charge neutrality and beta-equilibrium is revealed. In this phase, the symmetry of the ground state is the same as in the conventional two-flavor color superconductor. In the low-energy spectrum of this matter, however, there are only two gapped fermionic quasiparticles, and the rest four quasiparticles are gapless. The origin and the basic properties of the gapless two-flavor color superconductor are discussed. This phase is a natural candidate for quark matter in cores of compact stars.

Keywords

FLAVOR COLOR SUPERCONDUCTOR
BASIC PROPERTIES
SUPERCONDUCTING
SUPERCONDUCTOR
GAPLESS TWO
TWO FLAVOR

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Published version: Physics Letters B, 564 (3-4), 205.

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