The Shear Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity of Nuclear Pasta

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2008-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/0807.2603v2

Phys.Rev.C78:035806,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 7 figures, minor changes, Phys. Rev. C in press

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.78.035806

We calculate the shear viscosity $\eta$ and thermal conductivity $\kappa$ of a nuclear pasta phase in neutron star crusts. This involves complex non-spherical shapes. We use semiclassical molecular dynamics simulations involving 40,000 to 100,000 nucleons. The viscosity $\eta$ can be simply expressed in terms of the height $Z^*$ and width $\Delta q$ of the peak in the static structure factor $S_p(q)$. We find that $\eta$ increases somewhat, compared to a lower density phase involving spherical nuclei, because $Z^*$ decreases from form factor and ion screening effects. However, we do not find a dramatic increase in $\eta$ from non-spherical shapes, as may occur in conventional complex fluids.

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