Color superconductivity

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Spring '06

4/7 - Introduction to BCS Theory

• George Newman
• Refs -
  • Tinkham
  • Weinberg's section on superconductivity (in Vol. II)
  • Rickayzen's book "Greens Functions in Condensed Matter"

4/14 - Effective Field Theory and the Fermi Surface

• Adam Sorini
• Refs -
  • Polchinski, "Effective field theory and the fermi surface"
  • D.B. Kaplan, "Five lectures on effective field theory"
  • Froehlich, Chen, Seifert, "Renormalization Group Methods: Landau-Fermi Liquid and BCS Superconductor"

4/21 - Chiral Symmetry Breaking

• Joe Wasem
• Refs -
  • Kaplan, nucl-th/0510023
  • Georgi, "Weak Interactions"

4/28 - Color Flavor Locking

• Paul Chesler
• Refs -
  • Rajagopal and Wilczek, hep-th/0011333 and references therein
  • Schafer and Wilczek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 (1999) 3956

5/5 - The Gap Equation in QCD

• Joaquin Drut
• Refs -
  • Schafer and Wilczek, Phys. Rev. D60 (1999) 114033
  • Son, Phys. Rev. D59 (1999) 094019

5/12 - Effective Field Theory, Meson Masses and the Pion Decay Constant

• Arnie Larson
• Refs -
  • Son and Stephanov, Phys. Rev. D61 (2000) 074012
  • Son and Stephanov, Phys. Rev. D62 (2000) 059902
  • Schafer, hep-ph/0109052
  • Bedaque and Schafer, Nucl.Phys. A697 (2002) 802

5/19 - Effective Field Theory and Kaon Condensation

• Andy O'Bannon
• Ref -
  • Kaplan and Reddy, Phys. Rev. D65 (2002) 054042

5/26 - Gapless Superconductivity

• Unknown
• Refs -
  • Kryjevski and Schafer, hep-ph/0407329
  • Alford, Berges, Rajagopal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, (2000) 598

6/2 - Crystalline Superconductivity

• Unknown
• Refs -
  • Abrikosov "Fundamentals of the theory of metals", sec 21.2
  • Alford, Bowers, Rajagopal, Phys. Rev. D63 (2001) 074016