Domain walls of high-density QCD

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作者
Son, DT
Stephanov, MA
Zhitnitsky, AR
机构
[1] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10027 USA
[2] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[3] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[4] Brookhaven Natl Lab, RIKEN, BNL Res Ctr, Upton, NY 11973 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3955
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We show that in very dense quark matter there must exist metastable domain walls where the axial U(1) phase of the color-superconducting condensate changes by 2 pi. The decay rate of the domain walls is exponentially suppressed and we compute it semiclassically. We give an estimate of the critical chemical potential above which our analysis is under theoretical control.
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页码:3955 / 3958
页数:4
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