Phonon spectrum of the QCD vacuum in a magnetic-field-induced superconducting phase

M. N. Chernodub; Jos Van Doorsselaere; Henri Verschelde

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.105011

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Phonon spectrum of the QCD vacuum in a magnetic-field-induced superconducting phase

M. N. Chernodub, Jos Van Doorsselaere, Henri Verschelde

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.105011 · Physical Review D

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Abstract

In the background of a sufficiently strong magnetic field the vacuum was suggested to become an ideal electric conductor (highly anisotropic superconductor) due to an interplay between the strong and electromagnetic forces. The superconducting ground state resembles an Abrikosov lattice state in an ordinary type-II superconductor: it is an inhomogeneous structure made of a (charged vector) quark-antiquark condensate pierced by vortices. In this paper the acoustic (phonon) vibrational modes of the vortex lattice are studied at zero temperature. Using an effective model based on a vector meson dominance, we show that in the infrared limit the longitudinal (transverse) acoustic vibrations of the vortex lattice possess a linear (quadratic) dispersion relation corresponding to type-I (type-II) Nambu-Goldstone modes.