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Ground state in a spin-one color superconductor

Andreas Schmitt

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.054016 · Physical Review D

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Abstract

Color superconductors in which quarks of the same flavor form Cooper pairs are investigated. These Cooper pairs carry total spin one. A systematic group-theoretical classification of possible phases in a spin-one color superconductor is presented, revealing parallels and differences to the theory of superfluid He3. General expressions for the gap parameter, the critical temperature, and the pressure are derived and evaluated for several spin-one phases, with special emphasis on the angular structure of the gap equation. It is shown that the (transverse) color-spin-locked phase is expected to be the ground state.

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