Color magnetic flux tubes in dense QCD

Minoru Eto and Muneto Nitta
Phys. Rev. D 80, 125007 – Published 4 December 2009

Abstract

QCD is expected to be in the color-flavor locking phase in high baryon density, which exhibits color superconductivity. The most fundamental topological objects in the color superconductor are non-Abelian vortices which are topologically stable color magnetic flux tubes. We present numerical solutions of the color magnetic flux tube for diverse choices of the coupling constants based on the Ginzburg-Landau Lagrangian. We also analytically study its asymptotic profiles and find that they are different from the case of usual superconductors. We propose the width of color magnetic fluxes and find that it is larger than naive expectation of the Compton wavelength of the massive gluon when the gluon mass is larger than the scalar mass.

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  • Received 28 July 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.125007

©2009 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Minoru Eto1,* and Muneto Nitta2,†

  • 1Theoretical Physics Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
  • 2Department of Physics, and Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521, Japan

  • *meto@riken.jp
  • nitta@phys-h.keio.ac.jp

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Vol. 80, Iss. 12 — 15 December 2009

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