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Unconventional Rotational Responses of Hadronic Superfluids in a Neutron Star Caused by Strong Entrainment and a Σ- Hyperon Gap
Physics Review Letters
  • Egor Babaev, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Publication Date
2009
Abstract

I show that the usual model of the rotational response of a neutron star, which predicts rotation-induced neutronic vortices and no rotation-induced protonic vortices, does not hold (i) beyond a certain threshold of entrainment interaction strength nor (ii) in the case of nonzero Σ- hyperon gap. I show that in both of these cases the rotational response involves the creation of phase windings in an electrically charged condensate. Lattices of bound states of vortices which result from these phase windings can (for a range of parameters) strongly reduce the interaction between rotation-induced vortices with magnetic-field carrying superconducting components.

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This is the pre-published version harvested from arXiv. The published version is located at http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v103/i23/e231101
Citation Information
Egor Babaev. "Unconventional Rotational Responses of Hadronic Superfluids in a Neutron Star Caused by Strong Entrainment and a Σ- Hyperon Gap" Physics Review Letters Vol. 103 Iss. 23 (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/egor_babaev/6/