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arxiv: 0810.4243 · v1 · submitted 2008-10-23 · ⚛️ nucl-th

Supercurrents in color-superconducting quark matter

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keywords quarkmattercurrcfl-kdensitiesfermionstateasymptoticallybasic
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We review the basic properties of the currCFL-K^0 phase in dense quark matter. At asymptotically large densities, three-flavor quark matter is in the color-flavor locked (CFL) state. The currCFL-K^0 state is a way to respond to ``stress'' on the quark Cooper pairing, imposed at more moderate densities by the strange quark mass and the conditions of electric and color neutrality. We show how a kaon supercurrent is incorporated in a purely fermionic formalism, and show that the net current vanishes due to cancellation of fermion and charge-conjugate fermion contributions.

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