Fate of the inert three-flavor, spin-zero, color-superconducting phases

I investigate some of the inert phases in three-flavor, spin-zero, color-superconducting quark matter: the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase (the analogue of the B phase in superfluid He-3), the A and A* phases, and the 2SC and sSC phases. I compute the pressure of these phases with and without the neutrality condition. It is shown that the 2SC phase is identical to the A* phase up to a color rotation. The CFL phase is the energetically favored phase except for a small region of intermediate densities where the 2SC/A* phase is favored.