New dynamic critical phenomena in nuclear and quark superfluids

Abstract

We study the dynamic critical phenomena near the possible high-density QCD critical point inside the superfluid phase of nuclear and quark matter. We find that this critical point belongs to a new dynamic universality class beyond the conventional classification by Hohenberg and Halperin. We show that the speed of the superfluid phonon vanishes at the critical point and that the dynamic critical index is $z\approx 2$.

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure; v2: published version