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Gauge Field Fluctuations and First-Order Phase Transition in Color Superconductivity

Ioannis Giannakis, Defu Hou, Hai-cang Ren, Dirk H. Rischke

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.232301 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

We study the gauge field fluctuations in dense quark matter and determine the temperature of the induced first-order phase transition to the color-superconducting phase in weak coupling. We find that the local approximation of the coupling between the gauge potential and the order parameter, employed in the Ginzburg-Landau theory, has to be modified by restoring the full momentum dependence of the polarization function of gluons in the superconducting phase.

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