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Bridging the Gap by Squeezing Superfluid Matter

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 108, Issue 11, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.111102

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  1. U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-91ER40628, DE-FG02-05ER41375, DE-FG02-00ER41132]
  2. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-91ER40628, DE-FG02-05ER41375] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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Cooper pairing between fermions in dense matter leads to the formation of a gap in the fermionic excitation spectrum and typically exponentially suppresses transport properties. However, we show here that reactions involving conversion between different fermion species, such as Urca reactions in nuclear matter, become strongly enhanced and approach their ungapped level when the matter undergoes density oscillations of sufficiently large amplitude. We study both the neutrino emissivity and the bulk viscosity due to direct Urca processes in hadronic, hyperonic, and quark matter and discuss different superfluid and superconducting pairing patterns.

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