abstract: Quark matter at sufficiently high density and low temperature is expected to be a color superconductor, and may exist in the interior of neutron stars. The properties of two simplest possible color-superconducting phases, i.e., the color-flavor-locked (CFL) and two-flavor superconducting (2SC) phases, are reviewed. The effect of a magnetic field on the pairing dynamics in two-flavor color-superconducting dense quark matter is investigated. A universal form of the gap equation for an arbitrary magnetic field is derived in the weakly coupled regime of QCD at asymptotically high density, using the framework of Schwinger-Dyson equation in the improved rainbow approximation. The results for the gap in two limiting cases, weak and strong magnetic fields, are obtained and discussed. It is shown that the superconducting gap function in the weak magnetic field limit develops a directional dependence in momentum space. This property of the gap parameter is argued to be a consequence of a long-range interaction in QCD. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Physics 2012
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:14593 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Contributors | Yu, Lang (Author), Shovkovy, Igor A. (Advisor), Lunardini, Cecilia (Committee member), Schmidt, Kevin (Committee member), Alarcon, Ricardo (Committee member), Lebed, Richard (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Format | 88 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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