Domain walls of high-density QCD.

We show that in very dense quark matter there must exist metastable domain walls where the axial U(1) phase of the color-superconducting condensate changes by 2pi. The decay rate of the domain walls is exponentially suppressed and we compute it semiclassically. We give an estimate of the critical chemical potential above which our analysis is under theoretical control.

• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2000-12-05

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3955arXiv hep-ph/0012041PMID 11328069
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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