Nuclear clusters or voids in the inner crust of neutron stars were predicted to have various shapes collectively nicknamed nuclear pasta. The recent review in Ref. [1] by López, Dorso and Frank summarized their systematic investigations into properties especially the morphological and thermodynamical phase transitions of the nuclear pasta within a Classical Molecular Dynamics model, providing further stimuli to find more observational evidences of the predicted nuclear pasta in neutron stars.
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出版日期: 2021-01-15
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Bao-An Li
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. [J]. Frontiers of Physics, 2021, 16(2): 24302.
Bao-An Li. Tasting nuclear pasta made with classical molecular dynamics simulations. Front. Phys. , 2021, 16(2): 24302.
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