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The presence of nuclear pasta is expected to modify the transport properties in the mantle of neutron stars. The non-spherical geometry of the pasta nuclear clusters leads to anisotropies in the collision frequencies, impacting the thermal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 Mateus R. Pelicer , Marco Antonelli , Débora P. Menezes , Francesca Gulminelli

In the so-called pasta phases predicted to occur in neutron star crusts, protons are able to move easily over large distances because the nuclear matter regions are extended in space. Consequently, electrical currents can be carried by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Zhao-Wen Zhang , C. J. Pethick

We compute the thermal conductivity and thermoelectric power (thermopower) of the inner crust of compact stars across a broad temperature-density domain relevant for proto-neutron stars, binary neutron-star mergers, and accreting neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Henrik Danielyan , Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian

We show that electrons can couple to the neutron excitations in neutron stars and find that this can limit their contribution to the transport properties of dense matter, especially the shear viscosity. The coupling between electrons and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 Bridget Bertoni , Sanjay Reddy , Ermal Rrapaj

Nuclear pasta, with non-spherical shapes, is expected near the base of the crust in neutron stars. Large scale molecular dynamics simulations of pasta show long lived topological defects that could increase electron scattering and reduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-26 C. J. Horowitz , D. K. Berry , C. M. Briggs , M. E. Caplan , A. Cumming , A. S. Schneider

Electrical conductivity of finite-temperature plasma in neutron star crusts is studied for applications in magneto-hydrodynamical description of compact stars. We solve the Boltzmann kinetic equation in relaxation time approximation taking…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian

In the present work, we consider nuclear matter in the innermost crust of neutron stars under the presence of a strong magnetic field within the framework of a relativistic mean-field description. Two models with a different slope of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Xiaopeng Wang , Jing Li , Jianjun Fang , Helena Pais , Constança Providência

We compute the anisotropic electrical conductivity tensor of the inner crust of a compact star at non-zero temperature by extending a previous work on the conductivity of the outer crust. The physical scenarios, where such crust is formed,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian , Narine T. Gevorgyan , Mekhak V. Hayrapetyan

We study the role of the pasta phases on the properties of rotating and magnetized neutron stars. In order to investigate such systems, we make use of two different relativistic mean-field unified inner-crust--core equations of state, with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-23 Ivo Sengo , Helena Pais , Bruno Franzon , Constança Providência

Neutron stars exhibit magnetic fields and densities far beyond those achievable in terrestrial laboratories, offering a natural probe of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. Using observationally anchored mass-radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Abriana Lyda , Prajwal MohanMurthy

Nuclear pasta, that is an inhomogeneous distribution of nuclear matter characterised by non-spherical clustered structures, is expected to occur in a narrow spatial region at the bottom of the inner crust of neutron stars, but the width of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-09 H. Dinh Thi , A. F. Fantina , F. Gulminelli

The elastic properties of neutron star crusts are relevant for a variety of currently observable or near-future electromagnetic and gravitational wave phenomena. These phenomena may depend on the elastic properties of nuclear pasta found in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 M. E. Caplan , A. S. Schneider , C. J. Horowitz

Practical expressions are derived for evaluation of electrical and thermal conductivities and thermopower of degenerate electrons in the outer envelopes of neutron stars with magnetic fields. All tensor components of the kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Y. Potekhin

Charged particles at the crust of compact stars may be ejected and accelerated by the electric field generated due to the rotation of the magnetized star. For neutron or hybrid stars, the negatively charged particles are usually electrons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Debojoti Kuzur , Rupamoy Bhattacharyya , Ritam Mallick

We study the electrical conductivity of finite-temperature crust of a warm compact star which may be formed in the aftermath of a supernova explosion or a binary neutron star merger as well as when a cold neutron star is heated by accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-13 Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian

Nuclear ``pasta'', nonspherical nuclei in dense matter, is predicted to occur in collapsing supernova cores. We show how pasta phases affect the neutrino transport cross section via weak neutral current using several nuclear models. This is…

I calculate the rate of electromagnetic scattering in degenerate and partially degenerate plasmas composed of electrons, muons, protons, and neutrons. Correlations with strong interactions, induced by the polarizability of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-01 Stephan Stetina

The nuclear pasta -- a novel state of matter having nucleons arranged in a variety of complex shapes -- is expected to be found in the crust of neutron stars and in core-collapse supernovae at subnuclear densities of about $10^{14}$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 C. J. Horowitz , M. A. Pérez-García , D. K. Berry , J. Piekarewicz

Transport properties of degenerate relativistic electrons along quantizing magnetic fields in neutron star crusts are considered. A kinetic equation is derived for the spin polarization density matrix of electrons. Its solution does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 A. Y. Potekhin

Exotic non-spherical configurations of nuclei, known as ``pasta" phases, are expected to be present at the bottom of the inner crust of a neutron star. We study the properties of these configurations in catalyzed neutron stars within a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-17 H. Dinh Thi , A. F. Fantina , F. Gulminelli
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