Enforced Electrical Neutrality of the Color-Flavor Locked Phase

Krishna Rajagopal and Frank Wilczek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3492 – Published 16 April 2001
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Abstract

We demonstrate that quark matter in the color-flavor locked phase of QCD is rigorously electrically neutral, despite the unequal quark masses, and even in the presence of an electron chemical potential. As long as the strange quark mass and the electron chemical potential do not preclude the color-flavor locked phase, quark matter is automatically neutral. No electrons are required and none are admitted.

  • Received 13 December 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3492

©2001 American Physical Society

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Krishna Rajagopal and Frank Wilczek

  • Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Vol. 86, Iss. 16 — 16 April 2001

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