Proximity effect of pair correlation in the inner crust of neutron stars
Sep 24, 202023 pages
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- PTEP 2021 (2021) 2, 023D03
- Published: Feb 11, 2021
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- 2009.11505 [nucl-th]
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We study the proximity effect of pair correlation in the inner crust of neutron stars by means of the Skyrme–Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov theory formulated in coordinate space. We describe a system composed of a nuclear cluster immersed in neutron superfluid confined in a spherical box. Using a density-dependent effective pairing interaction that reproduces both the pair gap of neutron matter obtained in ab initio calculations and that of finite nuclei, we analyze how the pair condensate in a neutron superfluid is affected by the presence of the nuclear cluster. It is found that the proximity effect is characterized by the coherence length of the neutron superfluid measured from the edge position of the nuclear cluster. The calculation predicts that the proximity effect has a strong density dependence. In the middle layers of the inner crust with baryon density || fm|| fm||, the proximity effect is strongly limited in the vicinity of the nuclear cluster, i.e., in a sufficiently smaller area than the Wigner–Seitz cell. In contrast, the proximity effect is predicted to extend to the whole volume of the Wigner–Seitz cell in shallow layers of the inner crust with || fm||, and in deep layers with || fm||.Note:
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