Functional renormalization group approach to color superconducting phase transition

Fejős, Gergely and Yamamoto, Naoki (2019) Functional renormalization group approach to color superconducting phase transition. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. ISSN 1126-6708

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Abstract

We investigate the order of the color superconducting phase transition using the functional renormalization group approach. We analyze the Ginzburg-Landau effective theory of color superconductivity and more generic scalar $\SU(N_{\rm c})$ gauge theories by calculating the $\beta$ function of the gauge coupling in arbitrary dimension $d$ based on two different regularization schemes. We find that in $d=3$, due to gluon fluctuation effects, the $\beta$ function never admits an infrared fixed point solution. This indicates that, unlike the ordinary superconducting transition, color superconductivity can only show a first-order phase transition.

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