Domain walls of high-density QCD.

Phys Rev Lett

Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.

Published: April 2001

We show that in very dense quark matter there must exist metastable domain walls where the axial U(1) phase of the color-superconducting condensate changes by 2pi. The decay rate of the domain walls is exponentially suppressed and we compute it semiclassically. We give an estimate of the critical chemical potential above which our analysis is under theoretical control.

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