2018/03/31 by Mark G. Alford, Gordon Baym, Kenji Fukushima +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.99.036004
published as Phys. Rev. D 99, 036004 (2019) · 10 pages, 2 figures; discussions on flavor non-singlet vortices elaborated; comments on color flux and center vortices added
arxiv created 2018/10/23 · arxiv updated 2019/02/13
We study how vortices in dense superfluid hadronic matter can connect to vortices in superfluid quark matter, as in rotating neutron stars, focusing on the extent to which quark-hadron continuity can be maintained. As we show, a singly quantized vortex in three-flavor symmetric hadronic matter can connect smoothly to a singly quantized non-Abelian vortex in three-flavor symmetric quark matter in the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase, without the necessity for boojums appearing at the transition.