TY - JOUR
T1 - Anisotropic optical response of dense quark matter under rotation
T2 - Compact stars as cosmic polarizers
AU - Hirono, Yuji
AU - Nitta, Muneto
PY - 2012/8/7
Y1 - 2012/8/7
N2 - Quantum vortices in the color-flavor locked phase of QCD have bosonic degrees of freedom, called the orientational zero modes, localized on them. We show that the orientational zero modes are electromagnetically charged. As a result, a vortex in the color-flavor locked phase nontrivially interacts with photons. We show that a lattice of vortices acts as a polarizer of photons with wavelengths larger than some critical length.
AB - Quantum vortices in the color-flavor locked phase of QCD have bosonic degrees of freedom, called the orientational zero modes, localized on them. We show that the orientational zero modes are electromagnetically charged. As a result, a vortex in the color-flavor locked phase nontrivially interacts with photons. We show that a lattice of vortices acts as a polarizer of photons with wavelengths larger than some critical length.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.062501
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.062501
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84864654171
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 109
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 6
M1 - 062501
ER -