Multi-gap superfluidity in nuclear matter

Liquid-gas instability and superfluidity in nuclear matter

Abstract We study effects of the medium polarization on superfluidity in symmetric nuclear matter in a relativistic formalism. An effect of the liquid-gas instability is emphasized. We examine two types of decomposition of the nucleon propagator; the standard Feynman-density and the particle-holeantiparticle ones. In both cases, the medium polarization effect is determined by a characteristic c...

Proton and Neutron Superfluidity in Asymmetric Nuclear Matter

We investigate the 1S0 neutron and proton superfluidity in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. We have concentrated on the isospin dependence of the pairing gaps and the effect of a microscopic three-body force. It is found that as the isospin asymmetry goes higher, the neutron 1S0 superfluid phase shrinks gradually to a smaller density domain, while the proton one extends rapidly to a much wide...

Dirac Sea Effects on Superfluidity in Nuclear Matter

We study two kinds of Dirac sea effects on the S0 pairing gap in nuclear matter based on the relativistic Hartree approximation to quantum hadrodynamics and the Gor’kov formalism. We show that the vacuum fluctuation effect on the nucleon effective mass is more important than the direct coupling between the Fermi sea and the Dirac sea due to the pairing interaction. The effects of the high-momen...

Superfluidity in Neutron Star Matter

0 Dispersive effects in neutron matter superfluidity

The explicit energy dependence of the single particle self-energy (dispersive effects), due to short range correlations, is included in the treatment of neutron matter superfluidity. The method can be applied in general to strong interacting fermion systems, and it is expected to be valid whenever the pairing gap is substantially smaller than the Fermi kinetic energy. The results for neutron ma...