Quark hadron continuity in QCD with one flavor
Journal Article
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· Physical Review D
We study QCD with one flavor at finite baryon density. In the limit of very high baryon density the system is expected to be a color superconductor. In the case of one flavor, the order parameter is in a {bar 3} of color and has a total angular momentum of 1. We show that, in weak coupling perturbation theory, the energetically preferred phase exhibits ''color-spin locking''; i.e., the color and spin direction of the condensate are aligned. We discuss the properties of this phase and argue that it shares important features of the hadronic phase at low density. In particular, we find an unbroken rotational symmetry, spin-3/2 quasiparticles, and an unusual mechanism for quark-antiquark condensation. Our results are relevant to three flavor QCD in the regime where the strange quark mass is bigger than the critical value for color-flavor locking. We find that the gaps in this case are on the order of 1 MeV.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 40205176
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 62; ISSN 0556-2821
- Publisher:
- The American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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