Neutron stars and the fermionic Casimir effect
Nuclear Theory
2009-11-07 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
The inner crust of neutron stars consists of nuclei of various shapes immersed in a neutron gas and stabilized by the Coulomb interaction in the form of a crystal lattice. The scattering of neutrons on nuclear inhomegeneities leads to the quantum correction to the total energy of the system. This correction resembles the Casimir energy and turns out to have a large influence on the structure of the crust.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0112002,
title = {Neutron stars and the fermionic Casimir effect},
author = {Piotr Magierski and Aurel Bulgac and Paul-Henri Heenen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0112002},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 1 figure, presented at the Fifth Workshop on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions, Leipzig, Germany, September 10-15, 2001, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A