Electromagnetically superconducting phase of QCD vacuum induced by strong magnetic field

Journal Article · Mon May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3574959· OSTI ID:21513248

Chernodub, M N ^[1]

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1. CNRS, Laboratoire de Mathematiques et Physique Theorique, Universite Francois-Rabelais Tours, Federation Denis Poisson, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours (France)

In this talk we discuss our recent suggestion that the QCD vacuum in a sufficiently strong magnetic field (stronger than 10{sup 16} Tesla) may undergo a spontaneous transition to an electromagnetically superconducting state. The possible superconducting state is anisotropic (the vacuum exhibits superconductivity only along the axis of the uniform magnetic field) and inhomogeneous (in the transverse directions the vacuum structure shares similarity with the Abrikosov lattice of an ordinary type-II superconductor). The electromagnetic superconductivity of the QCD vacuum is suggested to occur due to emergence of specific quark-antiquark condensates which carry quantum numbers of electrically charged rho mesons. A Lorentz-covariant generalization of the London transport equations for the magnetic-field-induced superconductivity is given.

• OSTI ID: 21513248
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1343, Issue 1; Conference: QCHS 9: 9. international conference on quark confinement and the hadron spectrum, Madrid (Spain), 30 Aug - 3 Sep 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3574959; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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