S .Trabucco - Exploring pulsar glitches with supersolids

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Room B. Rossi (LNGS)

Room B. Rossi

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INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso Via Giovanni Acitelli 22 Assergi, L'Aquila Italy
Izabela Anna Kochanek (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Nicola Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Riccardo Biondi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Descrizione

Title
Exploring pulsar glitches with supersolids

Abstract
Glitches, spin-up events in neutron stars, are of prime interest as they reveal properties of nuclear matter at subnuclear densities. We explore a possible glitch mechanism due to vortex unpinning using analogies between neutron stars and dipolar supersolids. We numerically observe the vortex and crystal dynamics during a glitch and its dependence on the supersolid quality, providing a tool to study glitches from different radial depths of a neutron star. Our work paves the way for the quantum simulation of stellar objects from Earth.
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Silvia Trabucco
GSSI & INFN
 

 

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Giulia Pagliaroili

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