The gapless 2SC phase

Abstract

Recent results on the gapless 2SC phase are reviewed. These include: the thermal stability under the constraint of the local charge neutrality condition, the properties at zero and nonzero temperatures, and the color screening properties.

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of 6th Conference on Strong and Electroweak Matter 2004 (SEWM04), Helsinki, Finland, 16-19 Jun 2004. Typos corrected