Gorbar E V, Hashimoto Michio, Miransky V A
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada.
Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jan 20;96(2):022005. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.022005. Epub 2006 Jan 19.
In two-flavor dense quark matter, we describe the dynamics in the single plane wave Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell (LOFF) state satisfying the color and electric neutrality conditions. We find that because the neutral LOFF state itself suffers from a chromomagnetic instability in the whole region where it coexists with the (gapped or gapless) two-flavor superconducting phases, it cannot cure this instability in those phases. This is unlike the recently revealed gluonic phase which seems to be able to resolve this problem.
