Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-06-30
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.371:1327-1333,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 0 figures; to be published in MNRAS, with minor correction made in proof and added acknowledgments
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10754.x
Neutron-star inner cores with several charged baryonic components are likely to be analogues of the two-gap superconductor which is of current interest in condensed-matter physics. Consequently, type I superconductivity is less probable than type II but may nevertheless be present in some intervals of matter density. The intermediate state structure formed at finite magnetic flux densities after the superconducting transitions is subject to buoyancy, frictional and neutron-vortex interaction forces. These are estimated and it is shown that the most important frictional force is that produced by the stable stratification of neutron-star matter, the irreversible process being diffusion in the normal, finite magnetic-flux density, parts of the structure. The length-scale of the structure, in directions perpendicular to the local magnetic field is of crucial importance. For small scales, the flux comoves with the neutron vortices, as do the proton vortices of a type II superconductor. But for much larger length-scales, flux movement tends to that expected for normal charged Fermi systems.
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