Chromomagnetic Instability and the LOFF state in a two flavor Color Superconductor

Abstract

We explore the relation between the chromomagnetic instability of a homogeneous two flavor color superconductor and the LOFF state. We perturb the free energy of the 2SC by generating a small net momentum for the quark pair. We find that the imaginary Meissner mass of a particular gluon implies that the LOFF state is energetically favored.

Comments: 11 pages, no figures, latex, discussion on charge neutrality, new references were added