Covering the Fermi surface with patches of quarkyonic chiral spirals
Covering the Fermi surface with patches of quarkyonic chiral spirals
We argue that in cold, dense quark matter, in the limit of a large number of colors the ground state is unstable with respect to creation of a complicated Quarkyonic Chiral Spiral (QCS) state, in which both chiral and translational symmetries are spontaneously broken. The entire Fermi surface is covered …