Gauge field fluctuations and first-order phase transition in color superconductivity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 23, 2004, Pages

  Giannakis, Ioannis ^a   Hou, Defu ^b,c   Ren, Hai Cang ^a   Rischke, Dirk H ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POTENTIALS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; GINZBURG-LANDAU THEORY; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD);

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMI SURFACE; FREE ENERGY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 37649027899     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.232301     Document Type: Article

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