Exploring phases of dense QCD with compact stars

2016/12/20 by Armen Sedrakian
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Fermion #Gapless playback #Isospin #Particle physics #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #QCD matter #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Quark #Spin (aerodynamics) #Stars #Strange matter #astro-ph.HE #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/epjconf/201716401009

published as EPJ Web of Conferences 164, 01009 (2017) · 11 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2016), 6-14 July 2016, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece

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Abstract

I review a number of recent developments in the physics of compact stars containing deconfined quark matter, including (a) their cooling with possible phase transition from a fully gapped to a gapless phase of QCD at low temperatures and large isospin; (b) the transport coeffcients of the 2SC phase and the role played by the Aharonov-Bohm interactions between flux-tubes and unpaired fermions; (c) rapidly rotating compact stars and spin-down and spin-up induced phase transition between hadronic and QCD matter as well as between different phases of QCD.

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