Holographic model with power-law Maxwell field for color superconductivity


Abstract in English

Studying the color superconductivity (CSC) phase is important to understand the physics in the core of the neutron stars which is the only known context where the gravitational force squeezes the matter to the sufficiently high density and hence the CSC phase might appear. We propose a simple holographic dual description of the CSC phase transition in the realistic Yang-Mills theory with a power-law Maxwell field. We find the CSC phase transition with the large color number in the deconfinement phase, which is not found in the case of the usual Maxwell field, if the power parameter characterizing for the power-law Maxwell field is sufficiently lower than one but above $1/2$ and the chemical potential is above a critical value. However, the power parameter is not arbitrary below one because when this parameter is sufficiently far away from one it leads to the occurrence of the CSC state in the confinement phase which is not compatible with a nonzero vacuum expectation value of the color nonsinglet operator.

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