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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

In this study, we examine thermal conductivity and the thermal Hall effect in electron-ion plasmas relevant to hot neutron stars, white dwarfs, and binary neutron star mergers, focusing on densities found in the outer crusts of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian

Non-equilibrium (NE) molecular dynamics (MD), or NEMD, gives a "direct" simulation of thermal conductivity kappa. Heat H(x) is added and subtracted in equal amounts at different places x. After steady state is achieved, the temperature T(x)…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-06 Philip B. Allen , Yerong Li

Carbon and nitrogen impurity transport coefficients are determined from gas puff experiments carried out during repeat L-mode discharges on the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) and compared against a previous analysis of helium impurity…

Topological defects have strong impact on both elastic and inelastic properties of materials. In this article, we investigate the possibility to controllably inject topological defects in quantum simulators of solid state lattice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-15 Oksana Chelpanova , Shane P. Kelly , Giovanna Morigi , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler , Jamir Marino

The pasta phase in core-collapse supernova matter (finite temperatures and fixed proton fractions) is studied within relativistic mean field models. Three different calculations are used for comparison, the Thomas-Fermi (TF), the Coexisting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-08 Helena Pais , Silvia Chiacchiera , Constanca Providência

Trapped electron mode turbulence is studied by gyrokinetic simulations with the GYRO code and an analytical model including the effect of a poloidally varying electrostatic potential. Its impact on radial transport of high-Z trace…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 A. Mollén , I. Pusztai , T. Fülöp , S. Moradi

In low-density nuclear matter which is relevant to the crust region of neutron stars and collapsing stage of supernovae, non-uniform structures called "nuclear pasta" are expected. So far, most works on nuclear pasta have used the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Minoru Okamoto , Toshiki Maruyama , Kazuhiro Yabana , Toshitaka Tatsumi

The nuclear incompressibility $\kappa$ is investigated in asymmetric systems in a mean field model. The calculations are done at zero and finite temperatures and include surface, Coulomb and symmetry energy terms for several equations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Z. Mekjian , S. J. Lee , L. Zamick

We study the effects of nuclear symmetry energy on the mass-radius relation and tidal deformability of neutron stars, considering the self-consistency of the equation of state (EOS). We first construct a set of unified EOSs based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-15 Fan Ji , Jinniu Hu , Shishao Bao , Hong Shen

The equilibrium distributions of the different pasta geometries and their linear sizes are calculated from the mean field Gibbs energy functional in symmetric nuclear matter at finite temperature. The average sizes and shapes coincide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-08 Celso C. Barros , Debora P. Menezes , Francesca Gulminelli

We review a molecular dynamics method for nucleon many-body systems called the quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) and our studies using this method. These studies address the structure and the dynamics of nuclear matter relevant to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-31 Toshiki Maruyama , Gentaro Watanabe , Satoshi Chiba

The thermal conductivity and shear viscosity of dense nuclear matter, along with the corresponding shear viscosity timescale of canonical neutron stars (NSs), are investigated, where the effect of Fermi surface depletion (i.e., the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 X. L. Shang , P. Wang , W. Zuo , J. M. Dong

The influence of various kinds of impurities on the isotope shift exponent \alpha of high temperature superconductors has been studied. In these materials the dopant impurities, like Sr in La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4, play different role and usually…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Mierzynska , K. I. Wysokinski

Topological defects are a ubiquitous phenomenon in diverse physical systems. In nematic liquid crystals (LCs), they are dynamic, physicochemically distinct, sensitive to stimuli, and are thereby promising for a range of applications.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-25 Shengzhu Yi , Hao Chen , Xinyu Wang , Miao Jiang , Bo Li , Qi-huo Wei , Rui Zhang

The chi-squared based covariance approach allows one to estimate the correlations among desired observables related to nuclear matter directly from a set of fit data without taking recourse to the distributions of the nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-11 Tuhin Malik , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência , J. N. De

Thermal and electric conductivities of relativistic degenerate electrons are calculated for the case when electrons scatter by phonons in Coulomb crystals made of spherical finite--size nuclei at densities $10^{11}$~g/cm$^3 < \rho <…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Baiko , D. G. Yakovlev

The interior of a neutron star (NS) is usually assumed to be made of cold catalyzed matter. However, the outer layers are unlikely to remain in full equilibrium during the formation of the star and its cooling, especially after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-09 A. F. Fantina , S. De Ridder , N. Chamel , F. Gulminelli

Topological defects are an essential part of the structure and dynamics of all liquid crystals, and they are particularly important in experiments and simulations on active liquid crystals. In a recent paper, Vromans and Giomi [Soft Matter,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Xingzhou Tang , Jonathan V. Selinger

We calculate exact zero-temperature real space properties of a substitutional magnetic impurity coupled to the edge of a zigzag silicene-like nanoribbon. Using a Lanczos transformation [Phys. Rev. B 91, 085101 (2015)] and the density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Andrew Allerdt , Adrian E. Feiguin , George B. Martins