Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-08-04
Int.J.Mod.Phys.D15:777-803,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
21 pages Latex. Part II of article whose Part I (Simple microscopic models) is given by nucl-th/0402057. New version extended
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0218271806008504
Phenomena such as pulsar frequency glitches are believed to be attributable to differential rotation of a current of ``free'' superfluid neutrons at densities above the ``drip'' threshold in the ionic crust of a neutron star. Such relative flow is shown to be locally describable by adaption of a canonical two fluid treatment that emphasizes the role of the momentum covectors constructed by differentiation of action with respect to the currents, with allowance for stratification whereby the ionic number current may be conserved even when the ionic charge number Z is altered by beta processes. It is demonstrated that the gauge freedom to make different choices of the chemical basis determining which neutrons are counted as ``free'' does not affect their ``superfluid'' momentum covector, which must locally have the form of a gradient (though it does affect the ``normal'' momentum covector characterising the protons and those neutrons that are considered to be ``confined'' in the nuclei). It is shown how the effect of ``entrainment'' (whereby the momentum directions deviate from those of the currents) is controlled by the (gauge independent) mobility coefficient K, estimated in recent microscopical quantum mechanical investigations, which suggest that the corresponding (gauge dependent) ``effective mass'' m* of the free neutrons can become very large in some layers. The relation between this treatment of the crust layers and related work (using different definitions of ``effective mass'') intended for the deeper core layers is discussed.
Carter Brandon
Chamel Nicolas
Haensel Pawel
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