2005/09/30 by A. P. Balachandran, Sanatan Digal, S. Digal +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.73.074009
published as Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 074009 · minor changes in the text
arxiv created 2005/10/20 · openalex publication_date 2006/04/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show that topological semisuperfluid strings exist in the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase of color superconductors. These semisuperfluid strings carry quantized flux of ordinary and color magnetic fields. Away from the core the behavior of the string is that of a superfluid string. Using a Ginzburg-Landau free energy we find the configurations of these strings. These strings can form during the transition from the normal phase to the CFL phase at the core of very dense stars. We discuss an interesting scenario for a network of strings and its evolution at the core of dense stars.