Electromagnetic Meissner effect in spin-one color superconductors

Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Dec 12;91(24):242301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.242301. Epub 2003 Dec 12.

Abstract

It is shown that color-superconducting quark matter, where quarks of the same flavor form Cooper pairs with spin one, exhibits an electromagnetic Meissner effect. This is in contrast to spin-zero color superconductors where Cooper pairs consist of quarks with different flavors.