Neutrality of a magnetized two-flavor quark superconductor

Tanumoy Mandal; Prashanth Jaikumar

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.87.045208

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Neutrality of a magnetized two-flavor quark superconductor

Tanumoy Mandal, Prashanth Jaikumar

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevC.87.045208 · Physical Review C

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Abstract

We investigate the effect of electric and color charge neutrality on the two-flavor color superconducting (2SC) phase of cold and dense quark matter in presence of constant external magnetic fields and at moderate baryon densities. Within the framework of the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model, we study the interdependent evolution of the quark's BCS gap and constituent mass with increasing density and magnetic field. While confirming previous results derived for the highly magnetized 2SC phase with color neutrality alone, we obtain new results as a consequence of imposing charge neutrality. In the charge neutral gapless 2SC phase (g2SC), a large magnetic field drives the color superconducting phase transition to a crossover, while the chiral phase transition is first order. At larger diquark-to-scalar coupling ratio GD/GS, where the 2SC phase is preferred, we see hints of the Clogston-Chandrasekhar limit at a very large value of the magnetic field (B∼1019G), but this limit is strongly affected by Shubnikov de Haas–van Alphen oscillations of the gap, indicating the transition to a domain-like state.