Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 032007 (2008) [4 pages]Color Superconducting Matter in a Magnetic FieldReceived 1 August 2007; published 24 January 2008 We investigate the effect of a magnetic field on cold dense quark matter using an effective model with four-Fermi interactions. We find that the gap parameters representing the predominant pairing between the different quark flavors show oscillatory behavior as a function of the magnetic field. We point out that due to electric and color neutrality constraints the magnetic fields as strong as presumably existing inside magnetars might induce significant deviations from the gap structure at a zero magnetic field. © 2008 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.032007
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.032007
PACS:
12.38.Aw, 24.85.+p, 26.60.−c
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