Electromagnetic Meissner Effect in Spin-One Color Superconductors

2003/01/31 by Andreas Schmitt, Qun Wang, Dirk H. Rischke · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #astro-ph #cond-mat.supr-con #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.91.242301

published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 91 (2003) 242301 · 4 pages, no figures, revtex4, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

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Abstract

It is shown that color-superconducting quark matter, where quarks of the same flavor form Cooper pairs with spin one, exhibits an electromagnetic Meissner effect. This is in contrast to spin-zero color superconductors where Cooper pairs consist of quarks with different flavors.

Citations

• Debye screening and the Meissner effect in a three-flavor color superconductor
• Theory of Superconductivity
• QCD at finite baryon density: nucleon droplets and color superconductivity
• How the quark self-energy affects the color-superconducting gap
• Photon self-energy in a color superconductor

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