Symmetry breaking patterns and collective modes of spin-one color superconductors

Abstract

Spin-one color superconductor is a viable candidate phase of dense matter in the interiors of compact stars. Its low-energy excitations will influence the transport properties of such matter and thus have impact on late-stage evolution of neutron stars. It also provides a good example of spontaneous symmetry breaking with rich breaking patterns. In this contribution, we reanalyze the phase diagram of a spin-one color superconductor and point out that a part of it is occupied by noninert states, which have been neglected in literature so far. We classify the collective Nambu--Goldstone modes, which are essential to the transport phenomena.

6 pages, 1 figure, invited talk on the 4th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics, June 2-5,2009, Taipei