Spring 2006: Color Superconductivity
Organizers: Paul Chesler
(pchesler@u.washington.edu)
and Joaquin Drut (jdrut@u.washington.edu)
- Friday, April 7, 2006
George Newman
"Introduction to BCS Theory"
ref: Tinkham, Weinberg's section on superconductivity (in Vol. II), Rickayzen's book "Greens Functions in Condensed Matter."
- Friday, April 14 2006
Adam Sorini
"Effective Field Theory and the Fermi Surface"
ref: Polchinski's paper "Effective field theory and the fermi surface," D.B. Kaplan's paper "Five lectures on effective field theory" and J. Froehlich, T. Chen, M. Seifert paper, "Renormalization Group Methods: Landau-Fermi Liquid and BCS Superconductor"
- Friday, April 21, 2006
Joe Wassem
"Chiral Symmetry Breaking"
ref: D. Kaplan's lectures nucl-th/0510023 and Georgi's book "Weak Interactions."
- Friday, April 28 2006
Paul Chesler
"Color Flavor Locking"
ref: K. Rajagopal and F. Wilczek, hep-th/0011333 and references therein and T. Schafer and F. Wilczek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3956–3959 (1999)
- Friday, May 5, 2006
Joaquin Drut
"The Gap Equation in QCD"
ref: T. Schafer and F. Wilczek, Phys. Rev. D 60, 114033 (1999) and D.T. Son, Phys. Rev. D 59, 094019 (1999).
- Friday, May 12, 2006
Arnie Larson
"Effective Field Theory, Meson Masses and the Pion Decay Constant"
ref: D.T. Son and M.A. Stephanov, Phys. Rev. D 61, 074012 (2000), D.T. Son and M.A. Stephanov, Phys. Rev. D62, 059902 (2000), T. Schafer hep-ph\0109052 and P. Bedaque and T. Schafer, Nucl.Phys.A697:802-822,2002
- Friday, May 19, 2006
Andy O'Bannon
"Effective Field Theory and Kaon Condensation"
ref: D. B. Kaplan and S. Reddy, Phys. Rev. D 65, 054042 (2002)
- Friday, May 26, 2006
TBA
"Gapless Superconductivity"
ref: A. Kryjevski and T. Schafer, hep-ph/0407329 and M. Alford, J. Berges, K. Rajagopal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 598–601 (2000)
- Friday, June 2, 2006
TBA
"Crystalline Superconductivity"
ref: Abrikosov "Fundamentals of the theory of metals", sec 21.2 and M. Alford, J. Bowers, K. Rajagopal, Phys. Rev. D, 63 074016 (2001)