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Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 132302 (2002) [4 pages]

Charged and Superconducting Vortices in Dense Quark Matter

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David B. Kaplan*
Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Box 351550, Seattle, Washington 98195-1550

Sanjay Reddy†
Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Received 1 October 2001; published 15 March 2002

Quark matter at astrophysical densities may contain stable vortices due to the spontaneous breaking of hypercharge symmetry by kaon condensation. We argue that these vortices could be both charged and electrically superconducting. Current carrying loops (vortons) could be long-lived and play a role in the magnetic and transport properties of this matter. We provide a scenario for vorton formation in protoneutron stars.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.132302
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.132302
PACS:
26.60.+c, 12.38.-t, 13.15.+g, 97.60.Jd

*Email address: dbkaplan@phys.washington.edu

†Email address: reddy@lns.mit.edu

 
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