Abstract
Superfluid states of symmetric nuclear matter with finite total momentum of Cooper pairs (nuclear LOFF phase) are studied with the use of Fermi-liquid theory in the model with Skyrme effective forces. It is considered the case of four-fold splitting of the excitation spectrum due to finite superfluid momentum and coupling of T=0 and T=1 pairing channels. It has been shown that at zero temperature the energy gap in triplet-singlet (TS) pairing channel (in spin and isospin spaces) for the SkM$^*$ force demonstrates double-valued behavior as a function of superfluid momentum. As a consequence, the phase transition at the critical superfluid momentum from the LOFF phase to the normal state will be of a first order. Behavior of the energy gap as a function of density for TS pairing channel under increase of superfluid momentum changes from one-valued to universal two-valued. It is shown that two-gap solutions, describing superposition of states with singlet-triplet (ST) and TS pairing of nucleons appear as a result of branching from one-gap ST solution. Comparison of the free energies shows that the state with TS pairing of nucleons is thermodynamically most preferable.
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