Phase Transitions of Charged Scalars and White Dwarf Stars

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• Rachel Rosen (Stockholm)
• Monday 02 May 2011, 13:00-14:00
• CMS, Pav.B, CTC Common Room (B1.19).

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Recent works have argued that the cores of certain white dwarf stars may contain a new kind of quantum liquid—a condensate of charged spin-0 particles. In this talk I will present a field-theoretic approach to studying the properties of this state of matter at finite temperature and the phase transition into this state. I will discuss evidence that the phase transition in white dwarf stars can be first order.

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