nLab colour superconductivity

Idea

In quantum chromodynamics, colour superconductivity is a phase of quark matter of high baryon density and relatively small temperature.

Related concepts

• QCD

  • quark, gluon

  • bound states:

    glueballs, hadrons (mesons, baryons)

  • colour charge, flavour (particle physics)

  • instanton in QCD, caloron, skyrmion

  • confinement

  • mass gap

  • quark-gluon plasma

References

Review:

• Mark Alford, Color superconducting quark matter, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 51:131-160, 2001 (arXiv:hep-ph/0102047)

• Mark G. Alford, Krishna Rajagopal, Thomas Schaefer, Andreas Schmitt, Color superconductivity in dense quark matter, Rev. Mod. Phys. 80:1455-1515, 2008 (arXiv:0709.4635)

See also

• Wikipedia, Colour superconductivity

Discussion via AdS/CFT:

• Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan, Jesus Cruz Rojas, Nick Evans, A Holographic Description of Colour Superconductivity, Phys. Rev. D 98 (2018) 066010 [arXiv:1803.03107, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.066010]