%0 Journal Article
%T Anisotropic Optical Response of Dense Quark Matter under Rotation: Compact Stars as Cosmic Polarizers
%A Yuji Hirono
%A Muneto Nitta
%J Physics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.062501
%X Quantum vortices in the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase of QCD have bosonic degrees of freedom, called the orientational zero modes, localized on them. We show that the orientational zero modes are electromagnetically charged. As a result, a vortex in the CFL phase nontrivially interacts with photons. We show that a lattice of vortices acts as a polarizer of photons with wavelengths larger than some critical length.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5059v2