The Condensed matter physics of QCD

By Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal, Frank Wilczek. 2000

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Important progress in understanding the behavior of hadronic matter at high density has been achieved recently, by adapting the techniques of condensed matter theory. At asymptotic densities, the combination of asymptotic freedom and BCS theory make a rigorous analysis possible. New phases of matter with remarkable properties are predicted. They provide a theoretical laboratory within which chiral symmetry breaking and confinement can be studied at weak coupling. They may also play a role in the description of neutron star interiors. We discuss the phase diagram of QCD as a function of temperature and density, and close with a look at possible astrophysical signatures.

Subfields: Geophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Cold Nuclear Matter In Holographic QCD (2007, background): “Eventually we hit at least one more transition, to a phase characterized by quark-quark condensates [1].”
• Superfluidity in nuclear systems and neutron stars (2018, background): “…superconductivity of cold quark matter in compact stars, where the three lightest flavors of quarks and three quark colors make the possible patterns of pairing especially interesting; for reviews and further references see (Alford et al., 2008; Anglani et al., 2014; Rajagopal and Wilczek, 2001).”
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