Transcript Diapositiva 1 - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Color
Superconductivity in
High Density QCD
Roberto Casalbuoni
Department of Physics and INFN - Florence
Villasimius, September 21-25, 2004
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Introduction
Motivations for the study of high-density QCD:
● Understanding the interior of CSO’s
● Study of the QCD phase diagram at
T~0 and high m
Asymptotic region in m fairly well
understood: existence of a CS
phase. Real question: does this
type of phase persists at relevant
densities ( ~5-6 r0)?
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Summary
● Mini review of CFL and 2SC phases
● Pairing of fermions with different Fermi momenta
● The gapless phases g2SC and gCFL
● The LOFF phase
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CFL and 2SC
Study of CS back to 1977 (Barrois 1977, Frautschi 1978,
Bailin and Love 1984) based on Cooper instability:
At T ~ 0 a degenerate fermion gas is unstable
Any weak attractive interaction leads to
Cooper pair formation
 Hard for electrons (Coulomb vs. phonons)
 Easy in QCD for di-quark formation (attractive
channel 3 )
(3 Ä 3 = 3 Å 6)
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In QCD, CS easy for large m due to asymptotic
freedom
At high m, ms, md, mu ~ 0, 3 colors and 3 flavors
Possible pairings:
0 ψαia ψβjb 0
 Antisymmetry in color (a, b) for attraction
 Antisymmetry in spin (a,b) for better use of the
Fermi surface
 Antisymmetry in flavor (i, j) for Pauli principle
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 
s s

p
Only possible pairings

p
LL and RR
Favorite state CFL (color-flavor locking)
(Alford, Rajagopal & Wilczek 1999)
α
0 ψαaLψβbL 0 = - 0 ψaR
ψβbR 0 = ΔεαβCεabC
Symmetry breaking pattern
SU(3)c Ä SU(3)L Ä SU(3)R Þ SU(3)c+L+R
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What happens going down with m? If m << ms we get
3 colors and 2 flavors (2SC)
α
aL
0ψ ψ
β
bL
αβ3
0 = Δε εab
SU(3)c Ä SU(2)L Ä SU(2)R Þ SU(2)c Ä SU(2)L Ä SU(2)R
But what happens in real world ?
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● Ms not zero
● Neutrality with respect to em and color
● Weak equilibrium
(no free energy cost
in neutral -> singlet,
Amore et al. 2003)
All these effects make Fermi momenta of
different fermions unequal causing problems to
the BCS pairing mechanism
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Consider 2 fermions with m1 = M, m2 = 0 at the same
chemical potential m. The Fermi momenta are
pF2  m
pF1  m2  M2
Effective chemical potential for the massive quark
meff =
Mismatch:
2
M
2
2
m - M » m2m
M2
dm»
2m
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If electrons are present, weak equilibrium makes
chemical potentials of quarks of different charges
unequal:
d ® uen Þ
md - mu = me
In general we have the relation:
(mi = m+ QimQ )
me = - mQ
N.B. me is not a free parameter
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¶V
= - Q= 0
¶ me
Neutrality requires:
Example 2SC: normal BCS pairing when
mu = md Þ n u = nd
But neutral matter for
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n d » 2n u Þ md » 2 mu Þ me = md - mu » mu ¹ 0
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1/ 3
Mismatch:
d
F
u
F
p - p
md - mu me mu
dm=
=
=
»
¹ 0
2
2
2
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Also color neutrality requires
¶V
¶V
= T3 = 0,
= T8 = 0
¶ m3
¶ m8
As long as dm is small no effects on BCS pairing, but
when increased the BCS pairing is lost and two
possibilities arise:
● The system goes back to the normal phase
● Other phases can be formed
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In a simple model with two fermions at chemical potentials
m+dm, mdm the system becomes normal at the
Chandrasekhar-Clogston point. Another unstable phase exists.
dm= D BCS
D BCS
dm1 =
2
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The point |dm|  D is special. In the
presence of a mismatch new features are
present. The spectrum of quasiparticles is
E(p) = dm±
(p - m) 2 + D 2
For |dm| < D, the gaps
are D  dm and D + dm
For |dm|  D, an unpairing
(blocking) region opens up
and gapless modes are
present.
E(p) = 0 Û p = m±
2dm
Energy cost for pairing
2D
Energy gained in pairing
dm2 - D 2
begins to unpair
2dm> 2D
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g2SC
Same structure of condensates as in 2SC
(Huang & Shovkovy, 2003)
4x3 fermions:
0
● 2 quarks ungapped qub, qdb
α
aL
ψ ψ
β
bL
αβ3
0 = Δε εab
● 4 quarks gapped qur, qug, qdr, qdg
General strategy (NJL model):
● Write the free energy:
● Solve:
Neutrality
Gap equation
V(mm
, 3 , m8 , me , D )
¶V ¶V ¶V
=
=
=0
¶ me ¶ m3 ¶ m8
¶V
= 0
¶D
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● For |dm| > D (dm=me/2) 2 gapped quarks become
gapless. The gapless quarks begin to unpair destroying
the BCS solution. But a new stable phase exists, the
gapless 2SC (g2SC) phase.
● It is the unstable phase which becomes stable in this
case (and CFL, see later) when charge neutrality is
required.
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g2SC
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● But evaluation of the gluon masses (5 out of 8 become
massive) shows an instability of the g2SC phase. Some of
the gluon masses are imaginary (Huang and Shovkovy 2004).
● Possible solutions are: gluon condensation, or another
phase takes place as a crystalline phase (see later), or this
phase is unstable against possible mixed phases.
● Potential problem also in gCFL (calculation not yet
done).
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gCFL
Generalization to 3 flavors
(Alford, Kouvaris & Rajagopal, 2004)
α
aL
β
bL
0ψ ψ
αβ1
αβ2
αβ3
0 = Δ1ε εab1 + Δ2ε εab2 + Δ3ε εab3
Different phases are characterized by different values for
the gaps. For instance (but many other possibilities exist)
CFL : D 1 = D 2 = D 3 = D
g2SC : D 3 ¹ 0, D 1 = D 2 = 0
gCFL : D 3 > D 2 > D 1
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Strange quark mass effects:
● Shift of the chemical potential for the strange
quarks:
M s2
ma s Þ ma s -
2m
● Color and electric neutrality in CFL requires
2
Ms
m8 = , m3 = me = 0
2m
● gs-bd unpairing catalyzes CFL to gCFL
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Ms2
dmbd- gs = (mbd - mgs ) = - m8 =
2
2m
Ms2
dmrd- gu = me , dmrs- bu = me 2m
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It follows:
M2
m
Energy cost for pairing
2D
Energy gained in pairing
begins to unpair
M2
> 2D
m
Again, by using NJL model (modelled on one-gluon
exchange):
● Write the free energy: V(mm
, ,m ,m , M ,D
3
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e
s
● Solve:
Neutrality
¶V ¶V ¶V
=
=
=0
¶ me ¶ m3 ¶ m8
Gap equations
¶V
= 0
¶Di
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i
)
● CFL # gCFL 2nd
order transition at Ms2/m ~
2D, when the pairing gsbd starts breaking
● gCFL has gapless
quasiparticles. Interesting
transport properties
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● LOFF (Larkin, Ovchinnikov, Fulde & Ferrel, 1964):
ferromagnetic alloy with paramagnetic impurities.
● The impurities produce a constant exchange
field acting upon the electron spins giving rise to
an effective difference in the chemical potentials
of the opposite spins producing a mismatch of the
Fermi momenta
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According to LOFF, close to first order point (CC point),
possible condensation with non zero total momentum
 
   
p1  k + q p 2  k + q
More generally
(x)(x)  De

2iqx
ψ(x)ψ(x) = å Δmcme
r r
2iq m ×x
m
 

p1 + p 2  2q

|q|
fixed variationally
 
q/|q|
chosen
spontaneously
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Single plane wave:
r
r r
E(p) - m® E(± p + q) - mm dm»
(p - m) + D m m
2
2
 
m  dm  v F  q
Also in this case, for
r r
| m=
| dm- v F ×q > D
a unpairing (blocking) region opens up and gapless
modes are present
Possibility of a crystalline structure (Larkin &
Ovchinnikov 1964, Bowers & Rajagopal 2002)
ψ(x)ψ(x) = Δ
å
r
|qi |=1.2δμ
e
r r
2iqi ×x
The qi’s define the crystal pointing at its vertices.
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Crystalline
structures in LOFF
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Analysis via
GL expansion
(Bowers and
Rajagopal (2002))
Preferred
structure:
face-centered
cube 27
Effective gap equation for the LOFF phase
(R.C., M. Ciminale, M. Mannarelli, G. Nardulli, M. Ruggieri & R. Gatto, 2004)
Consists in an approximation to the pairing region
The result can be interpreted as having P quasi-particles
each of one having a gap kD, k =1, …, P.
The approximation is better far from a second order
transition and it is exact for P = 1 (original FF case).
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Multiple phase transitions from the CC
point (Ms2/m  4 D2SC) up to the cube case
(Ms2/m ~ 7.5 D2SC). Extrapolating to CFL
(D2SC ~ 30 MeV) one gets that LOFF
should be favored from about
Ms2/m ~120 MeV up Ms2/m ~ 225 MeV
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Conclusions
● Under realistic conditions (Ms not zero, color
and electric neutrality) new CS phases might exist
● In these phases gapless modes are present. This
result might be important in relation to the
transport properties inside a CSO.
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