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.
Volume
103
Issue
23
Journal Title
Physics Review Letters
Comments
This is the pre-published version harvested from arXiv. The published version is located at http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v103/i23/e231101