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We investigate the combined effect of neutron and proton superfluidities on the cooling of neutron stars whose cores consist of nucleons and electrons. We consider singlet-state pairing of protons and triplet-state pairing of neutrons in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. Gusakov , A. D. Kaminker , D. G. Yakovlev , O. Y. Gnedin

The origin of the vortex-core states in s-wave and d_{x^2-y^2}-wave superconductors is investigated by means of some selected numerical experiments. By relaxing the self-consistency condition in the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations and tuning…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Berthod

Recent work on Alfvenic turbulence by Goldreich & Sridhar (1995; GS) suggests that the energy cascades almost entirely perpendicular to the local magnetic field. As a result, the cyclotron resonance is unimportant in dissipating the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eliot Quataert

Instabilities in a neutron star can generate Alfv\'en waves in its magnetosphere. Propagation along the curved magnetic field lines strongly shears the wave, boosting its electric current $j_{\rm A}$. We derive an analytic expression for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 Alexander Y. Chen , Yajie Yuan , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Xinyu Li

We investigate vortex solutions in the Ginzburg-Landau theory for neutron $^3P_2$ superfluids relevant for neutron star cores in which neutron pairs possess the total angular momentum $J=2$ with spin-triplet and $P$ wave, in the presence of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Michikazu Kobayashi , Muneto Nitta

We investigate the effect of the density-dependent proton and neutron gaps on vortex dynamics in neutron stars. We argue that the persistence of neutron star magnetic fields on timescales of $10^9$ y suggests a superconducting gap curve…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen D. H. Hsu

We propose magnetic proto-neutron star (PNS) winds driven by \Alfven waves as well as the neutrino heating as an appropriate site for the r-process nucleosynthesis. \Alfven waves excited by surface motions of a PNS propagate outwardly, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shigehiro Nagataki

Strong pinning of superconducting flux quanta by a square array of 1 $\mu$m-sized ferromagnetic dots in a magnetic-vortex state was visualized by low-temperature magnetic force microscopy (LT-MFM). A direct correlation of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-03-18 T. Shapoval , V. Metlushko , M. Wolf , B. Holzapfel , V. Neu , L. Schultz

The dynamics of quantised vorticity in neutron star interiors is at the heart of most pulsar glitch models. However, the large number of vortices (up to $\approx 10^{13}$) involved in a glitch and the huge disparity in scales between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Vadym Khomenko , Brynmor Haskell

The effect of a magnetic field component parallel to the superconducting layers on longitudinal Josephson plasma oscillations in the layered high temperature superconductor Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$ is shown to depend on the…

We demonstrate that in highly magnetized pair plasmas, nonlinear Alfven waves with wave-number $k \leq k_0 = \omega_p^2 /(\delta \omega_B)$ ($\delta =( \delta B)/B_0$ are relative fluctuations of the magnetic field) experience powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Maxim Lyutikov

The thermal evolution of neuron stars depends on the elementary excitations affecting the stellar matter. In particular, the low-energy excitations, whose energy is proportional to the transfered momentum, can play a major role in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Marcello Baldo , Camille Ducoin

In this paper, we study the weakly-compressive high-frequency plasma waves which are superposed on a large-amplitude Alfv\'en wave in a multi-fluid plasma consisting of protons, electrons, and alpha particles. For these waves, the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Daniel Verscharen , Eckart Marsch

The pinning and collective unpinning of superfluid vortices in a decelerating container is a key element of the canonical model of neutron star glitches and laboratory spin-down experiments with helium II. Here the dynamics of vortex…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-26 L. Warszawski , A. Melatos , N. Berloff

The transition to a type II proton superconductor which is believed to occur in a cooling neutron star is accompanied by changes in the equation of hydrostatic equilibrium and by the formation of proton vortices with quantized magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. B. Jones

Large pulsar glitches (like the ones detected in the Vela) are though to be a consequence of the superfluid component present in the interior of mature neutron stars. However strong entrainment challenges this picture. We study the impact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-23 Marco Antonelli , Pierre Pizzochero

We study the bulk viscosity in neutron star cores due to modified Urca processes involving nucleons, electrons and muons and analize its reduction by singlet-state or triplet-state superfluidity of nucleons. In combination with the results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Haensel , K. P. Levenfish , D. G. Yakovlev

We study the superfluid dynamics of the outer core of neutron stars by means of a hydrodynamic model made of a neutronic superfluid and a protonic superconductor, coupled by both the dynamic entrainment and the Skyrme SLy4 nucleon-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-23 J. A. Gil Granados , A. Muñoz Mateo , X. Viñas

Type-I proton superconducting cores of neutron stars break up in a magnetic field into alternating domains of superconducting and normal fluids. We examine two channels of superfluid-normal fluid friction where (i) rotational vortices are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Armen Sedrakian

The interaction between lattice vibrations of nuclear clusters and superfluid phonons associated with neutron superfluidity plays an important role in the dynamics of the neutron-star inner crust. While this coupling has been discussed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Masayuki Matsuo , Arata Nishiwaki , Toshiyuki Okihashi , Masaru Hongo