1109.3100 (Bo Feng et al.)

Magnetoelectric Effect in Strongly Magnetized Color Superconductivity    [PDF]

Bo Feng, Efrain J. Ferrer, Vivian de la Incera

The effect of a strong magnetic field on the electric polarization of a
three-flavor color superconducting medium is investigated. We found that the
electric susceptibility of this strongly magnetized medium is highly
anisotropic. In the direction transverse to the applied magnetic field the
susceptibility reduces to that of the vacuum, while in the longitudinal
direction it depends on the magnetic field and decreases with it. The nature of
this behavior is associated with the field's dependence of the Cooper pairs'
coherence length, which plays the role of the electric dipole length. The
field's dependence of the electric polarization is interpreted as the
realization of the magnetoelectric effect in cold-dense quark matter.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.3100