The three flavor LOFF phase of QCD

Abstract

We explore the Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell (LOFF) phase of QCD with three flavors, using a Ginzburg-Landau expansion of the free energy, and a NJL point-like four-fermion interaction, with the quantum numbers of single-gluon exchange.

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure, To appear as a Proceeding of the Helmholtz International Summer School "Dense Matter In Heavy Ion Collisions and Astrophysics", JINR, Dubna 2006