Effective description of the LOFF phase of QCD

Abstract

We present an effective field theory for the crystalline color superconductivity phase of QCD. It is kown that at high density and at low temperature QCD exhibits a transition to a color superconducting phase characterized by energy gaps in the fermion spectra. Under specific circumstances the gap parameter has a crystalline pattern, breaking translational and rotational invariance. The corresponding phase is the crystalline color superconductive phase (or {\it LOFF} phase). We compute the parameters of the low energy effective lagrangian describing the motion of the free phonon in the high density medium and derive the phonon dispersion law.

Comments: Talk at the Giselda Meeting, Frascti (Roma), 14-18 Jen 2001. Latex file, 7 pages, 1 figure