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Can There be Quark Matter Core in a Strongly Magnetized Neutron Star?

Tanusri Ghosh, Somenath Chakrabarty

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9912527

Abstract

The effect of strong quantizing magnetic field on the nucleation of quark matter droplets and on the chemical evolution of nascent quark phase at the core of a neutron star are investigated. The surface energy of quark phase diverges logarithmically. As a consequence there can not be a first order transition to quark phase. However, a metal-insulator type of second order transition is possible unless the field strength exceeds 1020G. The study of chemical evolution of newborn quark phase shows that in β-equilibrium the system becomes energetically unstable.

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