Quark hadron continuity in QCD with one flavor

Thomas Schäfer
Phys. Rev. D 62, 094007 – Published 28 September 2000
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Abstract

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 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.

  • Received 12 June 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.094007

©2000 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Thomas Schäfer

  • Department of Physics, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794
  • Riken-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973

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Vol. 62, Iss. 9 — 1 November 2000

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