Neutron Stars as Type-I Superconductors

Details Neutron Stars as Type-I Superconductors Neutron Stars as Type-I Superconductors

2003-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0308148v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.92:151102,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.151102

In a recent paper by Link, it was pointed out that the standard picture of the neutron star core composed of a mixture of a neutron superfluid and a proton type-II superconductor is inconsistent with observations of a long period precession in isolated pulsars. In the following we will show that an appropriate treatment of the interacting two-component superfluid (made of neutron and proton Cooper pairs), when the structure of proton vortices is strongly modified, may dramatically change the standard picture, resulting in a type-I superconductor. In this case the magnetic field is expelled from the superconducting regions of the neutron star leading to the formation of the intermediate state when alternating domains of superconducting matter and normal matter coexist.

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